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It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.
Aml Ameen
Life
Funny
Hope
Best
You
Reality
Projection
Witness
Mind
Feeling
Live
Funny Thing
Once
Worst
Arabic
Something
Investing
Delusion
Name
Suppose
Principle
Exist
To Live By
Turning
Means
Your
Thing
Desire
Alchemy
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
Angela Davis
Work
Time
Political
Will
Somehow
Arise
Taken
Tension
Between
Involves
Inevitably
Issues
Survive
Contributions
Current
Certain
Requirement
Activist
Desire
Position
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan
Great
Parenting
Mistake
Think
About
Observation
Excite
Put
Know
Powers
Nonsense
Off
Falsehoods
Discrimination
Children
Them
Growing
Things
Desire
I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.
Astro
Good
Man
Happy
Good Man
Long
Material
Material Things
Things
Desire
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
Education
Man
Every
Secret
Hidden
Born
Talents
Being
Career
Desire
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Behan
You
Everything
Guts
Something
Obtaining
Greatly
Stake
Desire
There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
Love
Justice
Happy
Humanity
Strong
Inspire
Honor
Men
Disposition
Virtue
Honors
Strong Desire
General
Only
Small
Mention
Glory
Same
Esteem
Which
Them
Riches
Whom
Desire
Number
Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'
David A. Bednar
Faith
Prayer
Soul
Will
Our
Trial
Through
Sincere
Beyond
Accept
Prayers
Persevere
Privilege
Done
Move
Patiently
Acknowledge
Meaningful
Ask
Engage
Act
Routine
Thine
Desire
Humbly
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
David Brainerd
Daily
Spiritual
Me
World
Space
Long
Empty Space
Nothing
Earnestly
Though
Possibly
More
More And More
Spiritual Things
Vast
Like
Obtain
Comfort
Empty
Least
Huge
Die
Whence
Which
Derived
Whole
Even
Appears
Satisfactory
Things
Desirable
Desire
Vacuum
Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.
Edward Sapir
Way
Immediate
Easiest
Easiest Way
Lies
About
Case
Impatience
Something
Generally
Ready
Hand
Itself
Done
Desire
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Fashion
Science
Seem
Rather
Inspires
Than
Appearances
Desire
That I feel a desire, my friends, that we in this latter day of the world, in which light is fast spreading, that we should be willing to attend to those portions of the Scriptures of truth that direct us home to the foundation.
Elias Hicks
Truth
Day
Home
World
Light
Those
Latter
Willing
Direct
Attend
Feel
Spreading
Friends
Which
Scriptures
Us
Should
Foundation
Fast
Portions
Desire
Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.
Eliot Spitzer
Strength
You
Change
People
Problems
Face
Down
Settle
Say
Status
Status Quo
Slower
Some
Push
Misunderstand
Go
Quickly
Size
Quo
Them
Urgency
Should
Hard
Desire
There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.
Eric Clapton
Me
Something
Head
Match
Hear
Express
Desire
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais
Long
Forbidden
Always
Denied
Us
Things
Desire
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Something
Forbid
Us
Thing
Desire
From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.
George Washington Carver
Music
Knowledge
Painting
Algebra
Inordinate
Favorite
Had
Studies
Sciences
Child
Being
Desire
Flowers
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure.
Greg Boyle
God
Heart
Our
Than
Conjure
Larger
Desire
Imaginations
You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I've ever done was an exercise in creativity. I've always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that's where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.
Greg Graffin
Religion
You
Creativity
Better
Challenge
Fire
Everything
Out
Bad
Inside
About
Had
Almost
Almost Everything
Look
Make
Exercise
Always
Question
Authority
Done
Where
Really
Challenged
Ever
Things
Desire
I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own.
Guillermo del Toro
You
People
Joy
Fear
Comedy
Try
Humor
Laughter
Own
Think
Films
Other
Monsters
Defined
Melodrama
Horror
Horror Films
Fact
Boundaries
Like
Know
Genres
His
Cannot
Sanction
Mean
Fantasy
Create
Each
Desire
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
H. P. Lovecraft
Great
Man
Culture
Will
Nation
Honour
High
Point
Primitive
Beyond
Imposed
May
Conventions
Acknowledge
Cannot
Certain
Certain Point
Desire
Those who have a true understanding of America know that we have no desire for territorial expansion, for economic or other domination of other peoples. Such purposes are repugnant to our ideals of human freedom.
Herbert Hoover
Freedom
People
Understanding
Other
Our
Those
No Desire
Economic
Purposes
True
Ideals
Know
Territorial
Expansion
Domination
America
Human
Repugnant
Human Freedom
Who
Desire
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer
Nature
Property
Argument
Our
Fact
Communist
Theory
Elements
Suggested
Desire
Fatal
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
Jack Miller
Life
Education
Quality
School
Our
Ability
Someone
Drives
Wrong
Economy
Schools
Quality Of Life
Go
Get
Desire
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
Experience
Only
Contain
Principle
Motivation
Against
Stand
Reasons
Desire
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
Janine Turner
Forgiveness
Person
Forgiving
Desire
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