I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.
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EDWARD WEISS What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
OVID Do not give what people desire, But give what people need.
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
HUGH PRATHER Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts,...
BLAISE PASCAL Desire to give and not always receive.
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different b...
MILAN KUNDERA Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire...
SLAVOJ ŽIžEK Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622 We must not be unjust and req...
FRANCOIS DE SALES I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other people's desire for me to do well...
PATRICK CHAN The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.
UNKNOWN Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit tho...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit th...
SAMUEL JOHNSON It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little momen...
JANET GUTHRIE We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrea...
LEO TOLSTOY One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fi...
GEORGE ALLEN One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fi...
GEORGE ALLEN, SR. You can actually accomplish all that you desire in life.
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SWAMI SIVANANDA Where desire doth bear the sway - the heart must rule, the head obey
FRANCIS DAVIDSON Everyone is looking for a miracle, when God puts in your heart the desire to pursue after your dream...
MANUEL CORAZZARI Of course the shrieking desire for the scoop can get really strong, but so is the desire to safeguar...
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DESIRE MCDOUGALL She really improved on her points.
DESIRE MCDOUGALL I really like it. It gives me an opportunity to learn my states and capitals. I never knew them befo...
DESIRE MCDOUGALL Life is to be enjoyed, the universe brings what we desire, but be prepared for what you desire.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN In my experience, desire is desire, love is love.
DAVID LEVITHAN Some women attract desire. Others do not.
PHILIPPA GREGORY My desire to exit the game is greater than my desire to remain in it. I have searched my heart throu...
BARRY SANDERS The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desi...
ANUJ SOMANY Love is not a desire. It's when you give and do not expect anything in return.
SUNALLURE My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of ...
ANDREAS GURSKY Undoubtedly the desire for food has been, and still is, one of the main causes of great political ev...
BERTRAND RUSSELL I desire to keep slavery and black people in the South in order to reserve the territories solely fo...
DAVID WILMOT I have patient to wait for what I desire.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I must first have the courage to desire a change, after that my world will be ready for peace, happi...
LATRICE NOBLES Whoever desire to prosper, must delight in prayer.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitu...
FRANçOIS FéNELON What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motiva...
ELLEN OCHOA Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-sk...
KELLY CLARKSON I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
RICHIE SAMBORA For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate hi...
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STEPHEN KIERNAN What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them
ANDREW COMBE To live, you must desire life.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having rea...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having rea...
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. The quickest way to succeed is to keep your mistakes closer than your desire for success.
VIKRANT PARSAI What is it men in women do require? The lineaments of Gratified Desire.What is it women do in men re...
WILLIAM BLAKE I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.
ROSANNE CASH I am dead because I lack desire,
I lack desire because I think I possess,
I think I posses...
RENé DAUMAL My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them th...
SAMINA BAIG I've never had any desire to be 6 feet tall. I'd go around banging my head.
FELIX SILLA I think for a while we will keep building up and up and up. The desire is there.
CESAR PELLI Desire for books, desire to read.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
STANLEY KUNITZ Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
ERIC HOFFER To be wealthy, you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial
independence.
BRIAN TRACY My desire for fame is infinite.
JOHN PAUL JONES Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the m...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
EDWARD DAHLBERT You must have the dedication, determination and desire to be a friend, not a bully.
CHRIS HOLLYFIELD What lies concealed is unknown; there can be no desire for what
is not known.
UNKNOWN In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners ex...
MASASHI KISHIMOTO One must desire something to be alive.
MARGARET DELAND Walking away from something means believing for something more. And if I want something more, I must...
JAN DENISE Desire is alcoholic, desire is the greatest drug possible. Marijuana is nothing, lsd is nothing. Des...
OSHO Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suff...
NEIL JORDAN My desire in life, is to learn what I have to teach; to suck all the marrow of life, and pass it ont...
EFRAT CYBULKIEWICZ I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de...
C. JOYBELL C. Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desir...
MENCIUS I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.
DANIEL HANDLER Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.
PAULO COELHO Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for actio...
SWAMI SIVANANDA For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
NEIL GAIMAN I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My t...
NIECY NASH 469.—We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneou...
DERRICK JENSEN I have no desire to go through the emancipation of women and homosexuals all over again.
PIM FORTUYN Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equip...
BETTY ROLLIN The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
MAYA ANGELOU Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire betw...
ADELISE M. CULLENS [T]hus one should not think that desire is repressed, for the simple reason that the law is what con...
MICHEL FOUCAULT We must desire to see people rising in life, rather than looking for ways to contribute to their fal...
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI My not having what i desire mean two things: time is not yet ripe for me to have it or there is far ...
STEPHEN EVANS HEREMESI I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my ...
JOHN CLEESE It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambi...
MARIE CURIE What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Desire, I not... For you are within.
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PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN