“Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty… and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called… — Glen Keane Copy Share Image
“I want to know what passion is,' he said. 'I want to feel something strongly. We are all grown-up intellectually and during… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
we usually think of ourselves as sitting the driver's seat, with ultimate control over the decisions we made and the direction our… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Self-body hate, like any hate or other strong negative emotion, contributes to unneeded weight gain by triggering junk-food cravings. — M.J. Rose Copy Share Image
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The greatest mission of woman is to give life, earth-life, through honorable marriage, to the waiting spirits, our Father's spirit children who… — Melvin J. Ballard Copy Share Image
The events in Crimea themselves have nothing to do with what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other regions. In my opinion,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The truth is -- we are always highly motivated when something means a great deal to us. If I fell into a… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
I find the Romantic period extraordinarily interesting. My landscapes have connections with Romanticism: at times I feel a real desire for, an… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
A half-century before Madonna, Gypsy [Rose Lee] understood how to make performance out of desire, how to exploit the very human and… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“anxiety to become good enough for Johan Cruyff to notice us cannot be put into words. Without that desire, none of us… — Guillem Balague Copy Share Image
The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing? — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a… — Sivananda Radha Saraswati Copy Share Image
There are some who become spies for money, or out of vanity and megalomania, or out of ambition, or out of a… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My magic. That was at the heart of me. It was a manifestation of what I believed, what I lived. It came… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“I’m disappointed that mine was not the first face he saw when he woke, but he sees it now. His features register… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
If there's one thing this team doesn't lack, it's competitiveness and a desire to win. No matter if we come off a… — Megan Rapinoe Copy Share Image
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will… — Mario Andretti Copy Share Image
Whereas his father would deliver rambling lectures that were heavy on gold and often disconnected from the political news of the moment,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is when you're just far enough away from what you desire that you can feel it. Change is the Pangaea moment.… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I'm writing, there are no bees to sting me… — John Green Copy Share Image
Although all of us desire happiness, few of us reach that goal because of the seemingly endless cycle of expectation and disappointment. — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“When an individual trusts another sufficiently to expose the true self--the deepest fears, the hidden desires--a powerful intimacy is born.” — Sarah Pekkanen Copy Share Image
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