Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW We were very influenced by The Beatles, no question.
BARRY GIBB To change one's life: 1. Starte immediately, 2. Do it flamboyantly, 3. No exceptions. -William Jame...
WILLIAM JAMES I recognize that motor fuel production and distribution are very complex processes that are influenc...
BOB TAFT Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenc...
CHARLES D. BROAD For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearance, as though they were realities and a...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
CASSANDRA CLARE We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I am very proud of William Kushner. He should prove to be a great asset to Berwyn.
MARK WEINER Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
MANTON I have always thought that my ear is also very influenced by my eyes.
EMANUEL AX Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully.
GYORGY LIGETI William James, who believed the decisive thing about us was not intelligence, strength, or wealth. �...
GEORGE SHEEHAN Don't get influenced by your surrounding, let your surrounding get influenced by you.
MURGESH PILLAI Whatever your feelings may be about William Clinton the man, or William Clinton the political ally o...
CHARLES RUFF We had a great effort by everyone. Thomas and Martinez each won two events and we had some good mark...
JAKE WINSLOW Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.
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TONY G. I like Italian movies. I was frequently there in the '60s, in Rome and the vicinity. It was a gr...
CLINT EASTWOOD He is a great artist. He may be the finest artist among American writers since William Faulkner and ...
HAROLD BLOOM There are very few LeBron James and Kobe Bryants.
STEVE ALFORD Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.
CASSANDRA CLARE We are very excited about both women. Mary Ann has been a camper with us and shows a lot of promise ...
JEANNE FLECK I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.
BILLY SHERWOOD We're all very influenced by jam music. We abolished the solo (in favor of) group improv,
GRATEFUL DEAD I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.
ALEXANDRE DE BETAK [Past Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas once said,] America is fitted by tradition for direct...
GIUSEPPE MAZZINI Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the des...
ALBERT GRAY It's okay to copy someone, to be influenced by a great master, so long as you say it.
WALTER W. WADA We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised comfort forms the true ...
K.W. JETER Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to thin...
JACQUE FRESCO Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could b...
CARROLL QUIGLEY Needs can be fulfilled, but desires cannot be. Desire is a need gone mad. Needs are simple, they com...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.
ELIAS HICKS Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want t...
ANWAR EL-SADAT I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stu...
DAN CHAON First of all, many human diseases are influenced by, if not caused by mutations in genes.
DANIEL NATHANS It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic, ... Our influences are not al...
CLEM BURKE It feels like a continuation of the Blondie sound. It's very eclectic. Our influences are not all mu...
CLEM BURKE By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influence...
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ANDY STOLL I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
ALAN MAK We grow in part by confessing our faults and weaknesses to each other (James 5:16; Eccl. 4:10). If w...
HENRY CLOUD The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.
TIM FARGO How long were you standing there?"
"Long enough to know you will be leaving soon. I thoug...
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JUDITH JAMES You missed a fine opportunity there."
Her heart raced as she whirled around. The hoarse v...
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DANIEL SCHACTER Mature minds never get occupied by others until and unless they are influenced by their own misconce...
MUHAMMAD RAFIQ KHAN KAKAR When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and o...
BETH MARTIN Strategy is influenced by circumstances.
RAJEN JANI I am influenced by everything.
INGRID JENSEN We cannot allow this country to be influenced by mafia and narcotics-related activities. It kills ou...
HAMID KARZAI My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
NATALIA MAKAROVA These are very rare events, but when they do happen, they are very damaging.
LARRY KESSLER We are a Christian-influenced clinic. He is the root of our practice.
LEONA TOMLINSON Our catered events, not just weddings, but anniversaries and different types of parties are very str...
CAROL SIMON The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
TODD GITLIN The world is a great mart, my Holly, where all things are for sale to whom who bids the highest in t...
H. RIDER HAGGARD Our emotional response is driven by the proximity of events.
PIYUSH SHRIVASTAV I do not believe that the desires of young boys cause catastrophic events. The actions of humans do.
MELINA MARCHETTA These are great all-ages events. I just hope that they can continue to brighten up the summers of al...
CINDY MORRISON The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.
SARAH NOFFKE The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to y...
OSCAR WILDE No really great man ever thought himself so.
- William Hazlitt,
WILLIAM HAZLITT Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condi...
PLATO Kids get influenced by other kids.
PAUL PIERCE Luck is influenced more by you than by nature.
JAMES YAGER We are very strong in some events and we have so many swimmers. I'm just hoping that our depth pays ...
BRIAN HOLM The soul's desires are fulfilled, upon meeting the Master, our Husband Lord. Nanak lives by chanting...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB We are all driven by two desires: the desire for others to notice we exist, and the desire for someo...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI The rand is no longer influenced by what happens between the euro and the dollar. The rand is now in...
DEBBIE ORGILL I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
RICK MERCER We are very excited about the addition of William, Adam and Phil to our program. All three were high...
CARTER JORDAN Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to...
EDMUND HILLARY Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley ...
JOHN SCALZI [PALS] is a great program. It has really influenced me.
AMANDA PELOSO Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
SAINT AUGUSTINE People are submissive to power, and few of them can be influenced
by doctrines of righteousness.
FRANCES MCCARTNEY FULKE-GREVILLE We're very happy. Our kids are making great gains.
ANTONIO JIMENEZ It's a mans world influenced by women.
JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR I can't deny it's influenced by Jaws.
DAMIEN HIRST The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' ...
DAVID HALLBERG In Hawaii, some of the biggest radio stations are reggae. The local bands are heavily influenced by ...
BRUNO MARS She hated that will had this effect on her. Hated it. She knew better. She knew what he thought of h...
CASSANDRA CLARE The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced ...
C.S. LEWIS Our desires reveal us. They show us for who we really are.
RICK RIORDAN Our backgrounds and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we ...
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PETER KREEFT Whether we know it or not, each of our decisions is influenced by what we want to see or think.
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