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Desire Quotes
"Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries."
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"Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest."
73
"The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness."
51
"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."
49
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
45
"I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner."
44
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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"The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see."
40
"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
40
"We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire."
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"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration."
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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
37
"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
37
"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
35
"Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay."
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"I was dying to have a cat. But they wouldn't let me. My mother hated them. Not once in my life have I managed to get something I really wanted. Not once. Can you believe it? You can't understand what it's like to live like that. When you get used to that kind of life--of never having anything you want--then you stop knowing what it is you want."
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"When you are suffering from sexual starvation, a spank or even a hug seems like a porn scene."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
29
"I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey."
28
"Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it."
28
"My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them."
28
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
27
"You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true."
27
"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
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"I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine."
27
"I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires."
26
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
26
"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
25
"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
25
"For long minutes, we stood there. Until I said, "Let's go find somewhere to eat " outside. "Hmmm. He showed no sign of letting go. I looked up at last. Found his eyes shining with that familiar, wicked light. "I think I'm hungry for something else, he purred. My toes curled in my boots, but I lifted my brows and said cooly, "Oh? Rhys nipped at my earlobe, then whispered in my ear as he winnowed us up to our bedroom, where two plates of food now waited on the desk. "I owe you for last night, mate. He gave me the courtesy, at least, of letting me pick what he consumed first; me or the food. I picked wisely."
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"It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
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