Desired Quotes
463 quotes by 394 authors
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No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
— Theodore Bikel
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the…
— Sitting Bull
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I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired…
— Donald Cargill
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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked…
— Maya Angelou
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired…
— Thomas Troward
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A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't know"-will never get…
— Ernest Holmes
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... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience and express their…
— Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided…
— Francois Fenelon
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
— Andrew Jackson
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Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have…
— Marie-Luise Gothein
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All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
— Martin Luther
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Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
— George Santayana
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Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
— William Moulton Marston
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Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
— Mark Twain
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Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.
— Zig Ziglar
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By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
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Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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