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" Quotes and Sayings About desire

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Control Desire Future Happiness
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Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Child Desire Even Had
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A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Wise parent Desire Friend Advisor
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Desire Every Fierce Get
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The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

Again Almost Basic Believe
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I love your lips when they're wet with wine and red with wicked desire

Love Lips Wine Wicked desire
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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

Desired Sufficiently Whatever Nonexistent
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Eagerness and desire to experience something new is more important than functional intelligence.

Eagerness Desire New Functional intelligence
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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Desire Fiery Go LetGo
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I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.

Desired Christian Prayed Forgiveness
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The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

Young World Few maintain Warfare
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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

Any Better Create Desired
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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Always Back Because Character
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

Greater impediment Progress Sciences
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If one’s desire is to influence, money will always come. If the desire is just to go in and make money, the content will be watery.

Desire Influence Make money Watery
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I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Any Being Desire Goes
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I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.

Desire Many things Heart filled Love
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If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened.

We desire Faith Strengthened Shrink
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In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

Enjoy Word Continue Read
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My burning desire is to lead my generation into the very act of worship, worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth.

Burning desire Generation Worship Lord
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I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Comic Decided Desire Had
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The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Beginning Bodies Desire Driven
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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.

Addressing Anxieties Build Capable
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I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Achieve Artistic Been Convinced
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I created MMG years ago. My desire was to create a space where the most talented artists in the world could be nurtured and supported. With that came a commitment. I vowed to support these artists through the good and the bad.

Artists Bad Came Commitment
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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

Desired Dying Living Sublimity
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Desire Greatness Help Liberates
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Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Basic Communist Conservative Controlled
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Revolutionary action more often than not was a theatrical concession to the desires of violently discontented masses rather than an actual battle for power.

Revolutionary action Theatrical concession
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Whatever can be taken away from a lasting enjoyment for its own sake cannot possibly be the proper object of desire.

Taken away Lasting enjoyment Proper object
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People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

Around People Constantly Emotions
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Acquisition Desire Ever Increases
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You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.

Achieving Allow Before Believe
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Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Desire Heart High How
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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Man's desire Duplicate Remarkable pattern
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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.

Believe Desire I Think Idioms
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I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Banker Between Canada Country
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Aspiration Become Controlling Desire
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If your real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Before Desire Good Just
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
Achieve Aspire Desire Obtain
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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Action Desires Feed Go
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Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

Against Desire Fingers Had
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Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Alone Desires Felt Free
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The European who comes to America plunges into the virgin forest with wonder and delight; while the American who goes to Europe finds his greatest pleasure, at first, in hunting up the memorials of the past. Each is in quest of novelty, and is burning with the desire to gaze at objects of which he has often read.

America American Burning Delight
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I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Choose Desire Emotions Energy
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Dropped Certain desires Friends Death
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Desires Educate Expand Horizon
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

Coupled Desire Desperate Hostility
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Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.

Man seek Cohesion Religious society
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Doubt impels a search for the truth. It opens the door to knowledge. Faith puts a lock on the door. Indeed, . . . faith anesthetizes the desire to seek knowledge and truth.

Doubt impels Truth Knowledge Faith
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