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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Desire'

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It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison, American First Lady (1768-1849)
We have been frustrated that there are a number of incumbents in Maryland offices who have been in office for years and years and show no movement or desire to pass the torch.
John Mahoney, English Actor (1940-  )
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Ella Maillart, Swiss Writer (1903-1997)
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart, Swiss Writer (1903-1997)
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
Joseph De Maistre, French Diplomat (1753-1821)
Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
Paul de Man, Belgian Critic (1919-1983)
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann, American Educator (1796-1859)
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann, American Educator (1796-1859)
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.
Marya Mannes, American Journalist (1904-  )
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
Nigel Mansell, British Athlete (1953-  )
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden, American Writer
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden, American Writer
Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.
Roger Maris, Athlete (1934-1985)
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Jacques Maritain, French Philosopher (1882-1973)
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet (1868-1950)
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse, French Artist (1869-1954)
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Andre Maurois, French Writer (1885-1967)
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
Catherine McAuley, Irish Clergyman
In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.
John McCarthy, American Politician
A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks.
Scott McClellan, American Politician (1968-  )
 
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