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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Quotations regarding 'Desire'

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For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
Martin Van Buren, American President (1782-1862)
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
Anthony Burgess, English Novelist (1917-1993)
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
John Burns, English Activist (1858-1943)
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 Burroghs, -
America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush, American President (1946-  )
I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.
George W. Bush, American President (1946-  )
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
George W. Bush, American President (1946-  )
There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.
Amir Butler, Australian Author
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler, British Poet (1835-1902)
Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.
Joseph Butler, English Clergyman (1692-1752)
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?
Joseph Butler, English Clergyman (1692-1752)
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
Joseph Butler, English Clergyman (1692-1752)
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron, British Poet (1788-1824)
'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron, British Poet (1788-1824)
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron, British Poet (1788-1824)
Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar, Roman Leader
It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell, American Author (1900-1985)
But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence.
Stephen Cambone, American Politician
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.
Albert Camus, French Philosopher (1913-1960)
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus, French Philosopher (1913-1960)
 
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