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Desires Quotes

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

Men Folly Desires While Capacities

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

Now Same Basic Desires Teens Had

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Love Reason Scholar Desires Applaud

Like the music and the period, I wanted 'I'm Not There' to be fun and full of emotions, desires and experiments that were thrilling and dangerous.

Music Fun Dangerous Emotions Desires

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

James Russell Lowell

Intelligence Horizon Expand Desires

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.

Now Nation Ground Desires Forth

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Best Government Happy People Desires

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Peace Lies Desires Satisfying

The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.

Women Men Psychology Desires Deposit

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Education Child Will Who Desires

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

Joseph de Maistre

Man Desire Would Who Desires Could

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Pierre Corneille

Overcome Always Who Desires Once

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Children Important More Desires Than

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Henepola Gunaratana

Learn You Want Desires Recognize

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

Think Christian Desires I Think Some

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Man Rich Poor Between Desires Every

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

Consequences Follow Take Desires

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

Live Long Old Would Desires Every

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Happiness I Have Learned Seek Desires

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Shoes Feet Want Off Like Desires

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Peace War Prepare Him Who Desires

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

Women Men Go Well Different Desires

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Duty Useful Desires Our Powers

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

God Prayer Man Will Desires Means

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