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Desire Quotes by Mark Twain
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who would escape hanging? Framed in a more positive light, this tells…
- Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
- Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for…
- In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would…
- If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
- We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
- Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
- No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.
- But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to…
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no…
- Ammy_Moving forward in life and believe in yourself irrespective of any problems is the only way to achieve what you desire.
- There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
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