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Letter "D" » Desire
«If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.»
«In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.»
Author: Jane Smiley
| About:
Desire
«I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.»
«If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough.»
«If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.»
«It is the human wish to be told lies that keep us as primitive morally and socially as we are. (...) I am persuaded that a lie grounded in human desire is too powerful for mere reason to kill.»
«It is impossible to abolish either with a law or an ax the desires of men»
«If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| About:
Desire
«If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desire not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, we are like ignorant children who want to continue making mud pies in a slum because we cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a vacation at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.»
«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.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| About:
Desire,
Insults,
Peace
| Keywords:
instruments, repel, repelled, repelling, repels
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