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  If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Desire, Want

• The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desire for a brighter future for our children. No matter what your family looks like, we all want the same thing for our families – happiness, health, prosperity, a bright future for our children and grandchildren.

  Kay Hagan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire, Looks

• The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.

  James Surowiecki

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reinvention, Desire
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  There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Desire
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  Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

  Sri Ramana Maharshi

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Happiness, Wrong, Desire
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  Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Desire, Strangers

• In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

  Phyllis Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dance, Desire
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  Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

  Vince Lombardi

  Topics in Sports, Victory

  Tags in Winning, Desire

• I’ve always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

  Diane Lane

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Desire
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  Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Topics in Goal, Humanity

  Tags in Universe, 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Palestinians, Desire

• Am I…your one and only desire…am I the reason you breathe…or am I the reason you cry?

  Saliva

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Desire

• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Rather, Read, Desire, Book, Books, Reading

• We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talent, Opportunities, Desire, Inspiration

• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  Samuel Johnson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Desire, Man, Books, Reading

• Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Democrat, Politically, Desire
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  Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Courage, Desire, Contradiction

• The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Topics in Past

  Tags in Desire, Heaven

• Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you’ll weep yourself to death.

  Bernard Cornwell

  Topics in God, Life, Religion

  Tags in Desire

• It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Danish Proverbs, Wisdom

  Tags in Desire