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Desired Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
- Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws…
More Desired Quotes
- No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel
- I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me… — Sitting Bull
- I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with… — Donald Cargill
- As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and… — Maya Angelou
- You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second… — C.S. Lewis
- Creative power is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic yet undifferentiated substance can flow and… — Thomas Troward
- A state of expectancy is a great assetl; a state of uncertainty-one moment thinking "perhaps" and the next moment thinking "I don't… — Ernest Holmes
- ... we believe in the vocation of communion and participation of our people, who day to day awaken to their political conscience… — Adolfo Perez Esquivel
- In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we… — Francois Fenelon
- Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms. — Andrew Jackson
- Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle… — Marie-Luise Gothein
- All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have… — Martin Luther