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Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius
Man
Own
Possess
His
Same
Each
Each Man
Desires
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Peter Abrahams
Dreams
Myself
World
Books
Born
Shakespeare
Poetry
Self
Self-Consciousness
New
Know
Terms
New World
Standards
Consciousness
Desired
Desires
Set
Just go for it. Don't be afraid of trying new things. You have absolutely no idea what's going to present itself to you. Don't be frightened. Just buckle down and do whatever your heart desires.
Phyllis Smith
You
Heart
Whatever
New Things
Down
No Idea
Absolutely
Idea
New
Go
Go For It
Itself
Frightened
Trying
Going
Just
Afraid
Your
Things
Present
Desires
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West
Soul
Passion
Master
Own
Duty
Abandon
Must
Itself
Loyal
Desires
I think once you know who your man is, and you know his wants and his desires and things like that, and you let him play his position, everything else is just gonna fall into place.
Remy Ma
You
Man
Fall
Think
Else
Everything
Once
Everything Else
Like
Know
Him
His
Just
Wants
Place
Gonna
Your
Who
Play
Things
Desires
Position
We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack.
Rene Girard
People
Other
Our
Tell
Would
Something
Feel
Come
Like
Know
Always
Selves
Did
Personal
Lack
Ask
Us
Depths
Even
Deepest
Desire
Desires
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
Roger Ebert
Needs
People
Action
Feed
Noble
Pictures
Like
Go
Lot
Just
Movies
Preexisting
Action Pictures
Things
Desires
I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'
Russell M. Nelson
Saying
Fear
Care
Power
Own
Too
Others
Savior
About
My Own
More
Bearing
Bless
Adversary
Sadly
Conduct
Than
Agency
Many
Satisfying
Desires
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration.
Theodore Dalrymple
Life
Me
People
Frustration
Safety
Other
Danger
Security
Never
Clear
Excitement
Simultaneously
Without
Hand
Contradictory
Often
Want
Mean
Wholly
Satisfying
Incompatible
Things
Desires
That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Government
Best
Happy
People
Make
Knows
How
Which
Them
Desires
The king, you say, desires to do what is right. My clergy are banished, my possessions are taken from me, the sword hangs over my neck. Do you call this right?
Thomas Becket
Me
You
King
Say
Possessions
Taken
Over
Clergy
Call
Banished
Sword
Right
Neck
Desires
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
Energy
Delight
He
Eternal
Breeds
Who
Acts
Desires
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang
Beautiful
Eyes
Will
Ears
Way
Sights
Abandoned
Immorality
Born
Restriction
Gives
Ritual
Lead
He
Propriety
Liking
Him
Principles
Sounds
Person
Any
Lack
Them
Desires
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.
Ai Weiwei
World
Values
Stage
Spend
Enter
Willing
Shanghai
Fails
Global
Accept
Understand
How
How Much
Effort
Just
Beijing
While
China
Much
Show
Universal
Desires
Olympics
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh
Success
Man
Doubting
Indifferent
He
Himself
Praise
His
Quit
Confident
May
Reassured
Applause
Desires
American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
Alex Pareene
Business
Big
Politicians
Rich
Solely
Responsive
Constituents
Primarily
Almost
Big Business
American
Represent
Interest
Interests
Groups
Desires
All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires.
Alija Izetbegovic
Needs
Spiritual
Man
Denial
Religious
Failures
Because
Materialistic
Either
Biological
Desires
If we remove all judgment and preconceived ideas of who a person is, the truth is, we are all blessed with the same emotions and desires.
Amanda de Cadenet
Truth
Truth Is
Emotions
Blessed
Remove
Judgment
Ideas
Person
Same
Preconceived
Who
Desires
Being about to land on the soil of North Carolina, the general commanding desires his soldiers to remember that they are here to support the Constitution and the laws, to put down rebellion, and to protect the persons and property of the loyal and peaceable citizens of the State.
Ambrose Burnside
Property
Constitution
Rebellion
Remember
Soil
Down
State
Soldiers
Carolina
Citizens
About
General
Laws
Put
Support
Protect
His
Commanding
North
North Carolina
Being
Land
Persons
Loyal
Peaceable
Here
Desires
There's something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
Andrew Pyper
Nature
Dark
Human Nature
Live
Chaos
Says
At Least One
Something
Least
Human
Where
Place
Symbolic
Desires
Need
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
Andy Grove
People
Management
Everyone
Kinda
Investors
Genes
Built
Salesman
Expect
Companies
Grow
Growth
Desires
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
Ann Aguirre
Thoughts
Woman
Book
First
Feelings
Believe
Sold
Says
Though
Sexual
Spine
Write
Written
Tense
Protagonist
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Differently
Present
Present Tense
Desires
In a world where families are drowning on beaches to escape war, leaving the church because of sexual abuse, or denied access because of sexual orientation, the utopia that Pope Francis desires may be impossible for the church to attain.
Anthea Butler
War
World
Impossible
Church
Francis
Sexual
Beaches
Attain
Abuse
Drowning
Because
Access
Leaving
Denied
Escape
Families
May
Where
Pope
Orientation
Utopia
Desires
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Antonio Tabucchi
Dreams
Me
Job
Something
Involves
Literature
Which
Fantasy
Desires
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
Arthur Peacocke
Good
Selfish
Humanity
Values
Sense
Only
Could
Individual
Stem
Survived
Personal
Transcendent
Social
Urges
Held
Desires
India has a very young population which is comfortable doing business on a screen than do it one on one with a banking executive. They want quick fulfilment of desires, and may not have the time to go to a bank to get things done. Many of them are comfortable working from home.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
Time
Home
Business
Young
India
One-On-One
Executive
Comfortable
Doing
Go
Quick
Very
Than
Get
Done
May
Bank
Banking
Screen
Want
Which
Them
Working
Fulfilment
Many
Population
Things
Desires
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