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Image of Francoise Giroud
Desire can be as fragile as it is sudden.
- Francoise Giroud
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Image of Eugene Schwartz
This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.
- Eugene Schwartz
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Image of Karen Wheaton
My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.
- Karen Wheaton
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Image of Anne Beatts
I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!
- Anne Beatts
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Image of Marie of Romania
Nothing's far when one wants to get there.
- Marie of Romania
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Image of Rumer Godden
Wanting is the beginning of getting.
- Rumer Godden
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Image of Tito Colliander
You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.
- Tito Colliander
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Image of Kathy Acker
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.
- Kathy Acker
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Image of Claude M. Bristol
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
- Claude M. Bristol
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Image of Stephen Harper
Faith teaches that there is a right and wrong beyond mere opinion or desire. Most importantly, it teaches us that freedom is not an end in itself, that how freedom is exercised matters as much as freedom itself
- Stephen Harper
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Image of Wanda Koop
I have a voracious appetite for images I can translate.
- Wanda Koop
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Image of Patrick Chan
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.
- Patrick Chan
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Image of Joe Hill
Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.
- Joe Hill
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Image of Philip Guston
To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.
- Philip Guston
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Image of David J. Lieberman
Whenever you are questioning a person's desire for something, consider what he does, not necessarily what he says.
- David J. Lieberman
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Image of Linda Stone
When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.
- Linda Stone
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Image of Juan Pablo Galavis
You have to respect everybodys desires and way of living.
- Juan Pablo Galavis
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Image of Marya Hornbacher
Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?
- Marya Hornbacher
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Image of Marya Hornbacher
It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of all strength.
- Marya Hornbacher
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Image of Don Henley
I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.
- Don Henley
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Image of Gerald Seymour
The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.
- Gerald Seymour
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Image of Thomas Hobbes
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
- Thomas Hobbes
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Image of Aleatha Romig
VOID is filled with intrigue, suspense, and smoldering desire. This story will keep you turning the page until the very end.
- Aleatha Romig
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Image of Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.
- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
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Image of Paul J. Meyer
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
- Paul J. Meyer
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Image of Ibn Battuta
I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.
- Ibn Battuta
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Image of Nathan Oliveira
I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
- Nathan Oliveira
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Image of Gerald Brommer
Draw and paint the subject the way you want it to be, not as it is.
- Gerald Brommer
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Image of A. C. Bradley
Macbeth's deed is done in horror, and without the faintest desire or sense of glory- done, one may almost say, as if it were an appalling duty; the instant it is finished, its futility is revealed to Macbeth as clearly as its vileness had been revealed beforehand
- A. C. Bradley
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Image of Marilyn Yalom
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
- Marilyn Yalom
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Image of Nate Lowman
There are so many different desires that make you execute an artwork.
- Nate Lowman
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Image of John Irving
We are formed by what we desire
- John Irving
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Image of Thomas Pogge
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
- Thomas Pogge
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Image of Henrik Ibsen
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
- Henrik Ibsen
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Image of Nagarjun
If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.
- Nagarjun
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Image of Nagarjun
If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire
- Nagarjun
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Image of Sue Augustine
I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer.
- Sue Augustine
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Image of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
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Image of Storm Jameson
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
- Storm Jameson
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Image of Karen Essex
There are no accidents in this world, that no living being is seduced into an entanglement that he did not invite with his innermost desires. Would you agree with my estimation?
- Karen Essex
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Image of Juliet B. Schor
Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire to acquire followed by a throwaway mentality. True materialism could become part of a new ecological consciousness.
- Juliet B. Schor
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Image of Francois Arnaud
I feel like there's a desire for a sense of permanence that is growing in me.
- Francois Arnaud
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Image of Mick Jagger
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.
- Mick Jagger
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Image of Sonia
Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.
- Sonia
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Image of Volkmar Sigusch
Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.
- Volkmar Sigusch
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Image of Jacques Lacan
The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.
- Jacques Lacan
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Image of Douglas Crimp
The desire of representation exists only insofar as the original is always deferred. It is only in the absence of the original that representation can take place.
- Douglas Crimp
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