It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Just as a tree, though cut down, can grow again and again if its roots are undamaged and strong, in the same… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
“I had only one desire: to leave, to walk, to die, whatever. I wanted to get away, never come back, disappear, melt… — Ágota Kristof Copy Share Image
I don't think women are, by definition, toxic to one another. I think women are simultaneously competitive toward and idolatrous of each… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good,… — Confucius Copy Share Image
I have been misunderstood perhaps more than anyone else ever, but it has not affected me, for the simple reason that there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Upon the decease [of] my wife, it is my Will and desire th[at] all the Slaves which I hold in [my] own… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There are psychologists who think that consciousness accompanies brain processes and is determined by them but doesn't itself exert any influence on… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and… — Luke Rhinehart Copy Share Image
I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy… — Neneh Cherry Copy Share Image
Cooking for a crowd during the holidays takes a lot of time and effort, so we understand the desire to outsource as… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
I will never have the willpower to completely swear off pizza or a good summer sale, but I'm working on realizing the… — Dan Levy Copy Share Image
I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire, desire, desire. — Gordon Lish Copy Share Image
Balancing hopes, desires and an appreciating of the possibilities with a clear-eyed assessment of the limitations: that is the art of choosing. — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf.… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
The organic laws of construction tangled me in my desires, and only with great pain, effort, and struggle did I break through… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor:… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Desire may cease once the desired person or object is acquired. The desire of reading doesn’t cease once a book is read,… — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse.… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Your mind is turbulent because you're filled with desires, frustrations. You want too many things. You are afraid of too many things.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Obstacles are only there because of desires. As the desires decrease, the obstacles will get broken. Then, everything can be attained.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause,… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness… No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase… — Gertrude the Great Copy Share Image
Bitcoin is a bank in cyberspace, run by incorruptible software, offereing a global, affordable, simple an dsecure savings account to billions of… — Michael J. Saylor Copy Share Image
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