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Desire Quotes by George Eliot
- But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge…
- The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.
- I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire…
- We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.
- The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the…
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine