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Desire Quotes

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

You Perfect Dangerous Desire Aim

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

Robert A. Heinlein

People Political Desire Want Never

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Back Go Desire Being Burning Desire

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Maggie Gallagher

Marriage Culture Desire Fragments

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Nature Good Men Desire Escape Our

This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.

Justice World Hands Desire Mercy

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Robertson Davies

World Present Country Canada Desire

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Herbert Spencer

Nature Argument Desire Property Fact

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Best Doing Desire Capable Out Going

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

William Shakespeare

Desire Sin Having Covetousness

I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.

Jacques Derrida

Believe Think Desire Pure Sign

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Day Purpose Government Desire First

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Science Fashion Appearance Desire

I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.

Me Society Pictures Desire Rebellion

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Perseverance Influence Desire Active

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

James Broughton

Truth Unique Create Desire Matter

I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.

Traveled New Desire Places Mexico

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

Giacomo Leopardi

Death Man Evil Desire Along Rewards

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

Man World Desire Had Crash

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Knowledge Behavior Desire Three Main

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Katharine Hepburn

Famous Learn Desire Out Act Started

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Money Eye Desire More Cash May

Creating a fan base of both fervent feelers and fanboys, Trump magnificently played off many fawning commentator's insecurities - using the deep desire to be liked or noticed by Trump as a method to keep their criticism of him tamped down.

Deep Criticism Down Creating Desire

I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.

Success Succeed Win You Desire Done

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