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Desire Quotes
The drive behind every goal worth chasing.
This collection frames desire as fuel - for personal energy, industry leadership, and even the universe's own push toward improvement. It's a theme that swings between ambition and restraint. Explore related lines under Dream.
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Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.
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When I first arrived at the Matignon, my desire was to reconcile Parliament and De Gaulle. I had forgotten only two things. Parliament and De Gaulle.
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If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
- Pray
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
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Have the courage of your desire.
- Evil
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- Nov 07, 2020
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
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- Nov 07, 2020
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
- Baby
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have the desire to do the job of acting. It's just a matter of whether I'll be allowed to do the job of acting that remains to be seen. There are only so many brick walls that I'm willing to beat my head on.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020