Top desire Quotes Collection

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Image of Ole Hallesby
My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
- Ole Hallesby
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Image of Michael Joseph Oakeshott
Economics is not an attempt to generalize human desires or human behavior; but to generalize the phenomena of price.
- Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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Image of Mark Doty
Desire can make anything into a god.
- Mark Doty
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Image of Luke Davies
In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.
- Luke Davies
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Image of Josef Pieper
Wonder is defined by Thomas [Aquinas] in the Summa Theologiae [I-II, Q. 32, a. 8], as the desiderium sciendi, the desire for knowledge, active longing to know.
- Josef Pieper
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Image of Hjalmar Branting
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature
- Hjalmar Branting
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Image of George S. Clason
Action will lead you forward to the success you desire.
- George S. Clason
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Image of Meghan O'Rourke
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.
- Meghan O'Rourke
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Image of Charles Buxton
All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.
- Charles Buxton
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Image of Dillon Burroughs
We must not simply desire God; we must live in total dependence.
- Dillon Burroughs
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Image of Herbert Spencer
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
- Herbert Spencer
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Image of Elizabeth Blackwell
When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.
- Elizabeth Blackwell
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Image of Mary Ruefle
Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.
- Mary Ruefle
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Image of John of the Cross
Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.
- John of the Cross
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Image of Heraclitus
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
- Heraclitus
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Image of Anouk Aimee
It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.
- Anouk Aimee
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Image of Beatrix Potter
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
- Beatrix Potter
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Image of Max Barry
The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.
- Max Barry
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Image of Ivan Klíma
..the writer's obsession - the desire to know and communicate, or, rather, to know everything so as to communicate with the greatest degree of precision.
- Ivan Klíma
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Image of Philip Yancey
In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.
- Philip Yancey
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Image of Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Image of Maurice Blanchot
Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.
- Maurice Blanchot
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Image of Matthew Quick
You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.
- Matthew Quick
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Image of Murray Rothbard
On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.
- Murray Rothbard
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Image of Aaron Siskind
For some reason or other there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. The so-called documentary picture left me wanting something.
- Aaron Siskind
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Image of Plautus
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
- Plautus
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Image of Edith Stein
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
- Edith Stein
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Image of Lionel Shriver
Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
- Lionel Shriver
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Image of Kingman Brewster, Jr.
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.
- Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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Image of Austin Osman Spare
My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness
- Austin Osman Spare
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Image of Eleanor Catton
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own.
- Eleanor Catton
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Image of Francis Beaumont
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
- Francis Beaumont
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Image of Francis Beaumont
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
- Francis Beaumont
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Image of Aiden Wilson Tozer
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Image of John Rawls
Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.
- John Rawls
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Image of P.D. Ouspensky
Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.
- P.D. Ouspensky
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Image of Trevanian
We all desire to be understood, but no one enjoys being obvious.
- Trevanian
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Image of Josephine Tey
After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.
- Josephine Tey
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Image of Leonardo da Vinci
I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Image of Jock Sturges
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
- Jock Sturges
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Image of Thomas Dreier
You can get what you desire and in just the measure of that desire.
- Thomas Dreier
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Image of Francoise Sagan
For what are we looking for if not to please? I do not know if the desire to attract others comes from a superabundance of vitality, possessiveness, or the hidden, unspoken need to be reassured.
- Francoise Sagan
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Image of Hayao Miyazaki
I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.
- Hayao Miyazaki
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Image of George Boole
I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.
- George Boole
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Image of Saadi
The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.
- Saadi
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Image of Brad Warner
The problem is the way we let our desires stand in the way of our enjoyment of what we already have.
- Brad Warner
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Image of Kate Winslet
The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.
- Kate Winslet
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Image of Wasif Ali Wasif
Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.
- Wasif Ali Wasif
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Image of Evita Peron
You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.
- Evita Peron
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Image of André Aciman
Besides the fear of ending up with the totally wrong person, the first time between two persons is underscored by two things: desire and awkwardness. The awkwardness of the first time when two individuals touch each other is never lost on the young...or the old.
- André Aciman
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