Desire Quote by William Macneile Dixon Download Open image “Our desires attract supporting reasons as a magnet the iron fillings.” — William Macneile Dixon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Filling Iron Magnet Reason
Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires. — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
All finite things have their roots in the infinite, and if you wish to understand life at all, you cannot tear out its context.… — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
There is more than a morsel of truth in the saying, "He who hates vice hates mankind." — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the… — William MacNeile Dixon Copy Share Image
The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the… — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
To understand any living thing, you must, so to say, creep within and feel the beating of its heart. — William Macneile Dixon Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up, though tottering himself. He felt as if his head were filled with smoke; flashes of light slipped through his eyelids; his thoughts vanished; it seemed to him that he was performing a religious act, and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
![“Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not tell - they catalyzed a burning desire to know. Under their influence, the horizons sprung wide and fear went away and the unknown became knowable. But most important of…” quote by John Steinbeck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/84c/john-steinbeck-71_art_teaching-might-even-be-the-greatest-of-t_1738.jpg)
