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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."
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"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
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"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."
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"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
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"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."
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"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
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"Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together."
"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
"Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are."
"Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire."
"Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed."
"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."
"There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners."
"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."
"You get in life that which is your deep driving desire."
"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."
"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
"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."
"The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired."
"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
"Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire."
"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."
"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
"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."
"I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky."
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