Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions. — Lester Levenson Copy Share Image
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“There’s a sensual art of asking that can despoil a man of everything he’s got BECAUSE OF HOW GOOD IT FEELS TO… — Lebo Grand Copy Share Image
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person. — Joshua Harris Copy Share Image
“you cannot get all your desires assuming the hidden secret standing somewhere scrutinizing your soul.” — Denmwen Copy Share Image
“In a wife I would desire / What in whores is always found / The lineaments of gratified desire.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
Potential counts for a lot; but heart, desire, and will can take a dream from potential to possible. — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
I believe that happiness consists in having a destiny in keeping with our abilities. Our desires are things of the moment, often… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
My image of what a city should be - the super-rich and all the poor and desperate and the people who have… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what… — Kyle Vidrine Copy Share Image
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“The part of the deep night when it’s impractical to do anything useful, but sleep won’t come, so the mind swirls around… — Eliza Maxwell Copy Share Image
“To begin with, at home I spent most of my time reading. I wanted to stifle all that was continuously boiling up… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The desire, let alone the gesture,to meet her needs was good enough to loft her spirits to the place where she could… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Hunter had been proud of few possessions during his life. He had, of course, been proud of his first bow and his… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons... full of desire. They demand of you the benefits… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change.… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to walk, and immensity in which to dream. At… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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