Best Desired Lines
463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors
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Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
— C.S. Lewis
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Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.
— Omar Bongo
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Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where…
— Roz Savage
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Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my…
— Edmund Gosse
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Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
— Edwin Booth
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I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that…
— Leslie Weatherhead
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Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
— Hakim Bey
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Knowledge is not enough to get desired results. You must have the more elusive ability to teach and to motivate. This defines a leader; if…
— John Wooden
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Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that…
— Khalil Gibran
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Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a…
— George Armstrong Custer
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Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.
— Tarek Saab
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The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will be found that…
— David Graham Phillips
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When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for…
— Grenville Kleiser
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I hymn and bless Your uncountable compassion and philanthropy, as You desired to number me with Your chosen servants. Look down, now, upon me the…
— Marina of Aguas Santas
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Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least…
— Ogden Nash
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The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.
— Unknown Author
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
— William Godwin
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Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
— Malcolm Forbes
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When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for…
— Grenville Kleiser
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The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would…
— Unknown Author
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A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the…
— Albert Hadley
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Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech. [Optimism through positive expectations can help to bring about…
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms,…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, “Can I believe this?”, but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, “Must I believe this?
— Thomas Gilovich
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