Desire Quotes

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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I wish I could understand why so many people have a nearly manic desire to excuse, defend, explain or condone evil.

Mike Gallagher

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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.

George Washington

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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

Fay Weldon

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The reason I like my job is that I have this desire to create. I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.

Susan Wojcicki

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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.

Helen Rowland

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The desire to abdicate, to give up - for me, that's primal.

Michelle Dean

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Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

Eric Hoffer

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I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

Carl Karcher

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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

Jim Capaldi

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I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

Francis of Assisi

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I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

Mohsin Hamid

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Mr. Best has expressed the desire to work with me, and I should be more than pleased to have him. His work has been excellent, and he is absolutely honest, careful, and impartial and has taken a great interest in the work.

Frederick Banting

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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.

Abraham Verghese

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All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Joan Chen

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Renown is something people have always wanted, but maybe what's modern is that it's considered a virtue, this desire, rather than a vice. I might be wrong about this.

Sheila Heti

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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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My secret desire is to be an interior designer. I'd love to make houses for rich clients who can afford to do things right.

Luca Guadagnino

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You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

Emmanuelle Beart

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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

Dan Gilroy

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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Johannes Tauler

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It is a maxim in philosophy that ambitious men can be never good counselors to princes; the desire of having more is common to great lords, and a desire of rule a great cause of their ruin.

Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford

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My goal was to build a meaningful sports business that operates at the highest levels in the areas of business that we compete in. I have an intense desire to be successful, and I'm extremely competitive.

Casey Wasserman

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