Best We Desire Sayings
171 We Desire quotes by 137 unique authors
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Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be…
— Joseph Butler
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We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which…
— Ivan Illich
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And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and…
— A. D. Gordon
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We are not old unless we desire to be.
— Taylor Caldwell
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It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
— Samuel Johnson
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other…
— Richard Paul Evans
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We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us -…
— Mark Twain
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Each one should realize there is nothing in (us) which denies that which (we) desire.
— Ernest Holmes
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It is not love that is to blame. But each of us has resistance to the very love we desire. We also have resistance to…
— Gay Hendricks
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We talk about predestination because the Bible talks about predestination. If we desire to build our theology on the Bible, we run head on into…
— R C Sproul
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We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an…
— Gregory Palamas
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If we desire to secure peace...it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
— George Washington
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Our community of rebels, of humble truth seekers, wants to turn our culture around. We don't despise our country. We don't desire failure. We desire…
— Joel Salatin
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Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
— Thomas a Kempis
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What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all
— J. S. Woodsworth
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It is quite normal to fear what one most desires. We desire to transcend the Story of the World that has come to enslave us,…
— Charles Eisenstein
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Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much…
— Teresa of Avila
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We desire peace. However, if imperialism insists on fighting a war, we will have no alternative but to take the firm resolution to fight to…
— Mao Zedong
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In God's name, Monsieur, let us remain indifferent; let us strive to be equally attached to whatever obedience marks out for us, be it agreeable…
— Vincent de Paul
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IF we desire European civilization to be a raid and a rescue, we shall insist rather that souls are in real peril than that their…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If socialists mean that under extraordinary circumstances, for urgent cases, the State should set aside some resources to assist certain unfortunate people, to help them…
— Frederic Bastiat
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The knowledge which we seek, the answers for which we yearn, and the strength which we desire today to meet the challenges of a complex…
— Thomas S. Monson
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