Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
One of the things that has always motivated me to write is the desire to get it out and look at it… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
When the height of your expectations meets the height of your desires, use your maximum potential to guarantee nothing less than greatness. — Jamie Timbre Copy Share Image
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and… — Katarina Witt Copy Share Image
Some times ur existence gives hope to one person, Your smile may be a pearl for someone, Your presence might be the… — Babloo Copy Share Image
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
The most hardcore, edgiest comedian in the world has no desire to hurt people and make people have a bad evening. Everybody… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
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Historically, bad money always drives out good. Accordingly, if a central bank anywhere in the world sets up its currency to be… — Porter Stansberry Copy Share Image
I am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Positive transference is then further divisible into transference of friendly or affectionate feelings which are admissible to consciousness and transference of prolongation… — sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
When you consider what you would love to accomplish in your life but feel ill-prepared to bring it about, picture the eighty-nine… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
The principle factor in my success has been an absolute desire to draw constantly. I never decided to be an artist. Simply,… — Winsor McCay Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama once said that every human being has two fundamental desires: to be happy and free of pain. I'm interested… — Patrick Holford Copy Share Image
“Temptation turns you. It makes you into something you never dreamed, it presses you to give up everything you ever loved, it… — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
“When we are young,” Jasnah said, “we want simple answers. There is no greater indication of youth, perhaps, than the desire for… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times;… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is the thing that is most remote from the world in which we ourselves live that attracts us most. We are… — Alec Waugh Copy Share Image
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Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature,… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people… — Mike Ditka Copy Share Image
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't… — George Benson Copy Share Image
A desire to see significant reform and change is perfectly compatible with our belief that membership of the E.U. is in our… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
The will to originality is not the will to be peculiar and unlike anybody else; it means the desire to derive one's… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means… — Anson Dorrance Copy Share Image
America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom... — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
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Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
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Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to… — Matthew Hussey Copy Share Image
I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image