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The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.
Ari Fleischer
Terrorism
Fight
Marked
Were
Desire
Bipartisan
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and identity cards, but memory does not play this game in quite the same way, always manages to confound the desire for tidiness.
Ariel Dorfman
Life
Game
Memory
Way
Marriages
Identity
Track
Returns
Does
Always
Deaths
Same
Quite
May
Tax
Unfold
Confound
Tax Returns
Body
Such Things
Keep
Play
Things
Cards
Desire
To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate.
Ariel Sharon
You
Respect
Dignity
Fate
Control
Live
Assure
Our
Neighbours
Independently
No Desire
Over
Genuine
Said
Israel
Govern
Continue
Intention
Your
Palestinian
Right
Desire
We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.
Ariel Sharon
Time
Democracy
Generation
Reality
Will
Every
Rule
Possibility
No Desire
Able
Bear
Over
Opening
Wishes
Exemplary
Permanently
Israel
Disengagement
Different
Which
Double
Plan
Who
Palestinians
Millions
Desire
Gate
Numbers
Presents
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes
Love
Love Is
Pursuit
Simply
Name
Whole
Desire
My good health, coupled with joy of tobogganing and my desire to be the best, has helped me stay in professional sport for so long.
Armin Zoggeler
Best
Health
Good
Good Health
Me
Joy
Long
Stay
Sport
Coupled
Helped
Professional
Desire
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
Pride
Achieve
Will
Free
Complete
Objectives
Vast
Stubborn
Never
Economies
Histories
Same
Nations
Different
Even
Agreement
Amount
Desire
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.
Arthur Keith
Good
Nature
Men
Too
Our
Distinctions
Good Men
Conspicuous
Observation
Between
Discriminate
Escape
Senses
Whether
Races
Desire
Christians
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
Arthur Keith
Strong
Tamed
Reason
Ever
Desire
I wanted to stay at Chelsea because we are always fighting and challenging for trophies. That desire and the will to want to win things have not gone.
Ashley Cole
Win
Will
Gone
Fighting
Stay
Trophies
Because
Chelsea
Always
Want
Wanted
Challenging
Things
Desire
I wouldn't say I've changed at all. A lot of people will keep saying I'm a different person, especially when I go across those white lines. I think it's just the hunger and desire and passion I've got for the game.
Ashley Young
Saying
Game
People
Passion
Will
White
Think
Changed
Say
Those
Hunger
Got
Go
Lines
Lot
Person
Just
Different
Across
Different Person
Keep
Desire
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
Ashton Eaton
People
Few
Those
Definitely
Only
Make
Within
Few People
Who
Level
Innate
Desire
We all have that desire for something special, something committed. We all want to be The One.
Ashton Kutcher
Something
Something Special
Committed
Want
Special
Desire
The decision to use a pen name was nothing more than a desire to compartmentalise my life. However, I had not thought about an appropriate pseudonym, and since there's an abundance of anagrams in the novel, the idea struck me: why not use an anagram of my name? Hence, Shawn Haigins.
Ashwin Sanghi
Life
Me
Decision
Thought
My Life
Nothing
Appropriate
Pen
About
Struck
More
Had
Idea
Abundance
Since
Name
Shawn
However
Than
Pseudonym
Use
Novel
Hence
Why
Why Not
Desire
I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
Ava DuVernay
Women
Black
College
Films
Teenager
Never
Had
Making
Child
Aware
Desire
Filmmaker
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
Worth
Achieve
Action
Possibility
Goal
Achieving
Which
Desire
When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian
Fear
Born
Dies
Desire
I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
Barton Gellman
Become
Think
More
He
Prospect
Became
Cheney
Off
Gradually
Burning
Burning Desire
Process
Appealing
Started
Desire
It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.
Basil Hume
Prayer
First
Drawn
More
Come
Because
Pray
Begin
Taste
Often
Then
Desire
An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
Bayard Taylor
Day
Me
World
Old
Long
One Day
Visiting
Enthusiastic
Haunted
Scenes
Had
Almost
Cherished
Childhood
Behold
Wandered
Which
Fancy
Should
Old World
Belief
Among
Early
Desire
Early Childhood
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
Bayard Taylor
Book
Language
See
Ardent
Could
Never
Written
Most
Read
Without
Foreign
Foreign Language
Desire
I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it makes you complacent. I feel very satisfyingly uncomfortable. I have the freedom to feel uncomfortable in the way I want to, is maybe a way to put it.
Beau Willimon
Happiness
Freedom
You
Myth
Think
Complacent
Way
Uncomfortable
Put
Feel
Makes
Very
Maybe
Want
Desire
If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
Beau Willimon
Politics
You
Yourself
Power
Ambition
Think
Lust
Else
Wall
Wall Street
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Really
Media
Street
Applicable
Desire
'A Streetcar Named Desire' is one of the best, if not the best, modern American plays. It deals with family dynamics, mental health, PTSD, war, and love. It's hard to beat.
Ben Foster
Love
War
Best
Health
Family
Mental Health
Mental
Beat
Named
Deals
American
Modern
Dynamics
Hard
Streetcar
Desire
Plays
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.
Ben Stiller
Funny
Time
Good
Genius
Jim
Jim Carrey
He
Simply
Overcoming
Him
Because
Comic
Public
Harder
Harder Time
Desire
As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.
Bernie Siegel
Words
Communicate
Power
Doctors
Patient
Relate
Our
Ability
Understand
Trained
Survive
To Survive
Desire
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