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As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
Fashion
Luxury
Important
Other
Increasingly
Purchases
Consumer
Put
Industries
Personal
Stamp
Many
Desires
When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.
Azar Nafisi
Dreams
Age
First
Become
Point
Had
Returned
Iran
Shining
Left
Which
Star
Desires
Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
Baruch Spinoza
Words
Men
Nothing
Difficulty
More
Govern
Than
Moderate
Tongues
Desires
It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.
Beau Willimon
Game
People
Will
Degree
Power
Ambition
Think
Dramatic
Rules
Spirit
Something
Push
Outside
Involved
Identify
Often
Tumble
Whenever
Interesting
Them
Rough
Play
Competitive
Desires
We want to be able to fly. We want to be able to sear somebody with lightning from across the room. Those are primal desires, to shoot somebody with energy.
Bill Irwin
Fly
Somebody
Energy
Those
Able
Primal
Lightning
Shoot
Want
Room
Across
Desires
Some people give themselves over to their most evil desires, and those people becomes evil. But in general, it's reductive to think of evil as something foreign and separate from the rest of us. Evil is part of everyone. We all have the capacity to commit evil acts.
Bill James
People
Evil
Rest
Some People
Think
Everyone
Those
Some
Give
Something
General
Part
Over
Most
Becomes
Foreign
Commit
Capacity
Themselves
Us
Separate
Acts
Desires
Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett
Thoughts
People
Own
Thinking
Other
Our
About
Consumed
Most
Always
Egocentric
May
Human
Just
Being
Want
Being Human
Us
Necessarily
Desires
'Gillespie and I' is a deliciously morbid, almost smutty story, a compendium of inappropriate wants and smarmy desires.
Carolyn See
Morbid
Almost
Wants
Story
Inappropriate
Desires
When it's supposed to be, when it's the right thing. I have a very strong opinion about things and what works best for me in terms of manifesting my desires.
Catherine Oxenberg
Best
Me
Strong
Right Thing
About
Supposed
Terms
Opinion
Very
The Right Thing
Manifesting
Works
Right
Thing
Things
Desires
Externally China desires independence, internally she seeks to maintain her existence as a nation; China therefore strives to loose the bonds that bind her people, and to complete the establishment of a new State.
Chiang Kai-shek
People
Independence
Nation
State
Complete
Seeks
Maintain
New
She
Loose
Existence
Establishment
China
Therefore
Bind
Her
Bonds
Desires
Of course making money and being able to live life the way one desires is important.
Chinmayi
Life
Live Life
Money
Important
Live
Way
Able
Course
Making
Making Money
Being
Desires
We are driven by the same fears and the same loves and the same ambitions and the same desires, whatever language we speak.
Costa Ronin
Speak
Language
Fears
Ambition
Whatever
Driven
Same
Loves
Desires
The Father's plan is designed to provide direction for His children, to help them become happy, and to bring them safely home to Him with resurrected, exalted bodies. Heavenly Father desires us to be together in the light and filled with hope.
David A. Bednar
Hope
Home
Together
Happy
Light
Father
Become
Exalted
Direction
Him
Safely
His
Provide
Heavenly
Heavenly Father
Children
Them
Plan
Us
Bodies
Help
Filled
Designed
Bring
Desires
Your soul's desires compel you to grow, evolve and move closer to your highest potential.
Debbie Ford
You
Soul
Evolve
Potential
Highest
Closer
Move
Your
Grow
Compel
Desires
Beneath the surface of your ego's insatiable cravings, your authentic desires are waiting patiently for you to acknowledge, claim and express them.
Debbie Ford
You
Waiting
Ego
Beneath
Claim
Insatiable
Surface
Authentic
Patiently
Acknowledge
Them
Your
Express
Desires
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
Deepak Chopra
Good
Collective
Human
Human Beings
Place
Beings
Desires
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling people countless things that they didn't need.
Douglas Tompkins
Buy
Fashion
People
Our
Had
Countless
Most
Industries
Were
Intellectually
Selling
Get
Manufacture
Products
Things
Desires
Need
Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Man
Virtue
Say
Would
Would-Be
No Desire
One-Man
Shall
Another
Because
Does
Were
His
Child
Vice
Whether
Who
Desire
Desires
And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires.
Elias Hicks
Time
Will
Long
Own
Profit
State
Our
Carnal
Ourselves
Pursue
Had
Suppose
Probation
Eternity
Should
Reason
Chose
Gratify
Ever
Desires
No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
Elihu Root
Nation
Sets
Spoils
Another
Forth
Ground
Avowed
Now
Desires
My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.
Elisabetta Canalis
Satisfied
Dogs
Maternal
Fully
Desires
When, in any ethical department, unity is attained between outer demands and inner desires, between nature and conscience, between the needs of society and the individual, the moral formula is void because inner necessity then makes it psychically and physically impossible to break the outer law. Thus, true morality is attained.
Ellen Key
Needs
Nature
Law
Impossible
Society
Unity
Moral
Outer
Morality
Physically
Void
Individual
Attained
True
Thus
Between
Demands
Because
Makes
Department
Any
Break
Formula
Ethical
Then
Conscience
Inner
Necessity
Desires
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer
Feeling
Nation
Awareness
Destiny
Gives
Mission
Unfulfilled
Which
Desires
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
Francesca Annis
Life
Love
Needs
You
Change
Will
Be Different
More
Than
Person
Different
Dynamic
Your
Things
Desires
Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.
Francesco Guicciardini
Strong
Mind
Men
Vain
Other
Consider
Honours
Ourselves
Hopes
Never
Had
Wishes
Like
Beyond
Obtained
Well
Content
Sought
Beforehand
Often
Which
Them
Should
Reason
Figured
Found
Why
Desires
Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.
Friedrich August von Hayek
Understanding
Whose
Desires
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