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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 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."
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"Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands."
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"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."
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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."
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"All that spirits desire, spirits attain."
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"My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful."
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"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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"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."
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"Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy."
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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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"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."
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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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"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."
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"My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible."
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"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
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"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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"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."
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"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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"I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready."
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
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"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."
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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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"I slept with her because she was hot and wanted me. Maybe we're dealing with the supernatural, but I'm still human."
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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."
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"My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement."
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"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."
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"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."
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"I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines."
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