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Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
Caring is irrelevant. Desire to do good is irrelevant. All that counts is knowledge and results
He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Policy changes like what you desire come from our politicians. So let them know what you think.
Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art
I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.
If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time.
A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.
We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do.
In general, women desire to rule over their husbands and lovers, to be the authority above them.
I skate just to satisfy my own desire and not care about other peoples desire for me to do well.
Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
There is no virtue in curiosity. In fact, it might be the most immoral desire a man can possess.
When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).
Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
I served. And now it's time for the new man to serve. I have zero desire to be in the limelight.
Young men still desire women as much as ever, even though they don't want to marry them as much.
If you are able to focus unswervingly on your goals, then all that you desire will become yours.
Let all our employment be to know God: the more one knows Him, the more one desires to know Him.
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.
The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.
Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
Our desires are the way that the healing life force comes through us and replenishes our bodies.
If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.
The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.
As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.