Desire Quotes - Page 31

• Greed, desire, ambition, jealousy, possessiveness, domination - you have to watch everything. And they are all interconnected, remember. If greed disappears, then anger will disappear. If anger disappears, jealousy will disappear. If jealousy disappears, violence will disappear. If violence disappears, possessiveness will disappear. They are all intertwined. In fact, they are spokes of the same wheel, and the hub that supports them all is the ego. So watch the ways of the ego.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Ambition, Support

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• I could barely speak after I was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers. I was going to play for the defending Super Bowl champions.... I immediately thought of all the great players on the team. I was in awe, as I had watched these soon-to-be legends play on television. They epitomized for me what football was all about: the love of the game, the professional approach, and the desire to win.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Team, Winning

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• Look to see what you most desire in your life, then ride that feeling all the way to creation.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feelings, Looks, Way

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a time of turmoil, a pathway to peace”, p.145, Hachette UK

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• Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

  Marvin Olasky

  Christian, Religious, Roots

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• Many desire to kill me, and many wish to spend an hour chatting with me. The law protects me from the former.

  Karl Kraus

  Law, Wish, Popularity

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Strong, Powerful, War

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• You will not see
  that desire begets
  love,
  until it all flames
  into one concise
  and metallic blaze.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flames, Metallic, Begets

  Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks”

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• Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Motivation, Powerful

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.68, Penguin

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• Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

  Roger Scruton

  Real, Order, Imagination

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• ... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal "the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry]." He said he didn't know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate's coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Girl, School, College

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• New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.... Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own. But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant--one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.

  Agnes Smedley

  New York, Destiny, Hopeful

  Agnes Smedley (2011). “Daughter of Earth”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• ... survival is the least of my desires.

  Dorothy Allison

  Survival

  Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.138, Open Road Media

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• I also suspect that many workers in this field [molecular biology] and related fields have been strongly motivated by the desire, rarely actually expressed, to refute vitalism.

  Francis Crick

  Molecular Biology, Fields, Motivated

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• Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

  Martin Delany

  Destiny, People, Events

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• Finding God in all things is not an 'empirical eureka.' When we desire to encounter God, we would like to verify him immediately by an empirical method. But you cannot meet God this way...A contemplative attitude is necessary: it is the feeling that you are moving along the good path of understanding and affection toward things and situations. Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God, and love of all things in God-this is the sign that you are on this right path.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Attitude

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• I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

  Sarah Fielding

  Love, Believe, Passion

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• Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

  Bell Hooks

  Sex, Language, Boundaries

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.175, Routledge

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• Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

  Pope Paul III

  Understanding, Littles, Faculty

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• In a famous Middletown study of Muncie, Indiana, in 1924, mothers were asked to rank the qualities they most desire in their children. At the top of the list were conformity and strict obedience. More than fifty years later, when the Middletown survey was replicated, mothers placed autonomy and independence first. The healthiest parenting probably promotes a balance of these qualities in children.

  Richard Louv

  Mother, Children, Years

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• If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Eye, Cities

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace,
  The fox in the forest, all had their desire,
  As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.

  Ruth Pitter

  Nature, Grace, Forests

  Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

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• How deep is our desire to do better than our mothers--to bring daughters into adulthood strong and fierce yet loving and gentle, adventurous and competitive but still nurturing and friendly, sweet yet sharp. We know as working women that we can't quite have it all, but that hasn't stopped us from wanting it all for them.

  Anne Roiphe

  Mother, Daughter, Sweet

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• Stevenson had noble ideas--as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.

  Garry Wills

  Ambition, Thoughtful, Ideas

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• Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

  Daniel Mainwaring

  Faith, Believe, Ambition

  "Fictional character: Dr. Dan 'Danny' Kauffman". "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", www.imdb.com. 1956.

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• It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.

  Orison S. Marden

  Ambition, Reality, Expression

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