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Tag Name "Desire" (4901)

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In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
Herbert Read
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Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.
Jason Russell
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Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.
Raimund Abraham
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You can’t coach desire, and no matter how fancy your training plan or how high your stated goals are, it comes down to getting out the door and doing the work day after day.
Steve House
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Perhaps a supreme form of charity may be exhibited by one who withholds judgment of another's acts or conduct, remembering that there is only one who can look into the heart and know the intent-and know the honest desires found therein.
H. Burke Peterson
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To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.
Pope Pius XII
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What happens when you lose your heart's desire?
Stephenie Meyer
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Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread otherwise there will be no peace.
Norman Borlaug
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What unites all beings is their desire for happiness.
Dalai Lama
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Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
John Hodgman
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Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish
George S. Clason
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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
Elihu Root
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You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen
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You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil, but what you will consider good or evil, what will give you joy or pain, what you will love or hate, desire or fear, depends on your standard of value.
Ayn Rand
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Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
C. S. Lewis
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The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
Thomas Jefferson
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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage obeying the soul brings liberation.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.
Mac Anderson
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By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
Rene Char
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The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
Publilius Syrus
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