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Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire.
I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.
Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.
Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom...
We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.
Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.
China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
It's the desire to study the human condition, the desire for collaboration, to learn and absorb, and to lead a well-examined life.
Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
As fast as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is desire.
It is impossible that the whole of truth should not be present at every time and every place, available for anyone who desires it.
But no words will change my desire / My determination born of love / My will to set my eccentric sight / On an ever exquisite dawn
When someone covets something they desire and lust over it.Usually it's something they can't have. You've always had that problem.
Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.
To be content does not mean that you don't desire more, it means you're thankful for what you have and patient for what's to come.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
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.
A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.
I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me.
Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.
Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.
In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.
From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.
We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.
Ultimately, if circumstances line-up in a way that makes it possible for Fugazi to play and the desire was there, we would do that.
The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.
I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
I think my initial desire to start making art came from a desire and a need to communicate but not having anyone to communicate to.
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.