Best Own Desires Quotes
55 Own Desires quotes by 48 unique authors
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... those who sit in the darkness of passions and whose minds are blinded by ignorance, or, rather, those who have not acquired the 'mind…
— Symeon the New Theologian
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We would willingly have others perfect, and yet we amend not our own faults. We would have others severely corrected and will not be corrected…
— Thomas a Kempis
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I'm sure everyone feels sorry for the individual who has fallen by the wayside or who can't keep up in our competitive society, but my…
— Ronald Reagan
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing…
— Umberto Eco
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My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play…
— Hugh Jackman
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I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly…
— Shirley MacLaine
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world…
— Bertrand Russell
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The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.
— Muqtada al Sadr
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In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone…
— Charles Stanley
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
— Rebecca West
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The story itself, the true story, is the one that the audience members create in their minds, guided and shaped by my text, but then…
— Orson Scott Card
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We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have…
— Edward Abbey
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The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset at every step…
— Susan B. Anthony
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[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of…
— Thornton Wilder
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The more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires. The spectacle’s estrangement from…
— Guy Debord
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...there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love *running*. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended…
— Christopher McDougall
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We all have to lead our own life, and we only have the one life, and the only people who can live life not according…
— Javier MarÃas
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I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing…
— Henry Miller
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I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through…
— Anne Sexton
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Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
— Elias Hicks
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People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One…
— Philip Yancey
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We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value ones own ego and…
— Senoraroy
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Love is . . . The freedom to pursue your own desires while sharing your experiences with the other person, The growth of one individual…
— Unkown
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