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Tag Name "Desire" (4899)

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It's natural for humans to suppress urges, for when our desires are left unchecked they lead to broken relationships, prison time, and forest fires.
Amy Sedaris
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Death is the mother of Beauty hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
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I have no desire to carry a movie.
Amy Sedaris
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The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens
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It doesn't matter how much you get you are left wanting more.
Amy Poehler
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The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature. In my desire for you, I burn at the right temperature to walk through love's fire. So when you ask me why I cannot love you more calmly, I answer that to love you calmly is not to love you at all.
Jeanette Winterson
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I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.
Sean William Scott
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Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.
Napoleon Hill
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Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.
Walt Kelly
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt Whitman
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Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
Muriel Rukeyser
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Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
Amy Carmichael
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It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates
Amy Carmichael
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Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.
Walter Cronkite
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There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
Amir Butler
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Walter Hilton
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I desire the love of God not because I am worthy, but because I am unworthy.
Walter Hilton
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Paparazzi will sit outside my house to see where I'm going, and when they see it's the studio, they'll be like, This is boring, and drive off. But you'd never catch me dancing on tables in public. I have no desire to be known for my personal life.
America Ferrera
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Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a Christian club.
Walter Kasper
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power.
Walter Lippmann
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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
Ambrose of Optina
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It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an axe the desires of men.
Walter Lippmann
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REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
Ambrose Bierce
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