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Saturday, September 21st, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Quotations regarding 'Desire'

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist (1713-1768)
The point of vision and desire are the same.
Wallace Stevens, American Poet (1879-1955)
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
Wallace Stevens, American Poet (1879-1955)
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
Andrew Taylor Still, American Scientist
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Ben Stiller, American Comedian (1965-  )
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller, American Comedian (1965-  )
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
Michael Stipe, American Musician (1960-  )
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Richard H. Stoddard, American Critic (1825-1903)
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone, American Businessman (1902-2002)
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
W. Clement Stone, American Businessman (1902-2002)
The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.
John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman (1778-1867)
Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
Meryl Streep, American Actress (1949-  )
It is an everlasting desire to make my dreams come true. And it's getting to the point now where it's like, come on I want my dreams to come true so that I can get on with the rest of my life. Sometimes I think about the rest of my life when I'm done.
Picabo Street, American Athlete (1971-  )
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
Gustav Stresemann, German Politician (1878-1929)
I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges, American Photographer
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, American Educator (1866-1936)
Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the same objectives.
Arthur H. Sulzberger, -
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist (1688-1772)
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer (1667-1745)
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
Tacitus, Roman Historian
 
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