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Friday, September 20th, 2024
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Quotations regarding 'Desire'

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Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
Melissa Bean, American Politician (1962-  )
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
Francis Beaumont, English Playwright
I have no desire to be president of the United States. Zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable. And there are far too many people that are far smarter than me to be president. I'd like to find one with some honor and integrity. I haven't seen them yet, but they'll show up.
Glenn Beck, American Journalist (1964-  )
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.
Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician (1933-  )
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
George Benson, American Musician (1943-  )
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
Charles Bent, American Politician
What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
Patty Berg, American Athlete (1918-2006)
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley, American Politician (1951-  )
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, Russian Philosopher (1909-1997)
There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
John Desmond Bernal, Irish Scientist (1901-1971)
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
Bruno Bettelheim, Italian Writer (1903-1990)
Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist (1842-  )
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake, English Poet (1757-1827)
I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.
Heston Blumenthal, English Celebrity (1966-  )
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
Nellie Bly, American Journalist (1864-1922)
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
Sissela Bok, Swedish Philosopher (1934-  )
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
Anne Boleyn, English Royalty
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
Lisa Bonet, American Actress (1967-  )
 
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