His Desire Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
— Joseph Conrad
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When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps…
— Rumi
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The King saw them with no common satisfaction, expressing his desire in no particular to have yt Stellar fish engraven and printed. We wish very…
— Henry Oldenburg
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Man did not address his inquiries to the earth on which he stood until a remarkably late stage in the development of his desire for…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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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…
— Mark Twain
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Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to…
— Adam Clarke
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The warrior of Light perseveres in his desire, but knows he must wait for the best moment.
— Paulo Coelho
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My husband is a natural-born leader. I quickly learned that I had to find a way of honoring his take-charge personality and not get frustrated…
— Candace Cameron
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Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and…
— John Eudes
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If a man's patience is stronger than his whims and desires, then he is like an angel, but if his whims and desires are stronger…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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God has spoken very boldly about his desire to be a presence in our lives. If I want to heal the ache and loneliness in…
— Tim Hansel
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I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his…
— Anais Nin
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I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a…
— Jim Wallis
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I don't have any illusion that The Creeper is as popular or will ever be as popular as any of the classic movie monsters, but…
— Victor Salva
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Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a god led him to throw…
— Empedocles
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Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him…
— George Saunders
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The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried…
— Claude M. Bristol
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When a man's intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incensiveness is completely…
— Maximus the Confessor
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Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what…
— Maximus the Confessor
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