887 Quotations with Desire.
- 41. Thomas Troward: Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into ...
- 42. Ambrose Bierce: CURIOSITY, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know wh ...
- 43. Ambrose Bierce: DRUIDS, n. Priests and ministers of an ancient Celtic religion which did not dis ...
- 44. Ambrose Bierce: DUTY, n. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line ...
- 45. Ambrose Bierce: HOPE, n. Desire and expectation rolled into one.
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- 46. Ambrose Bierce: MARTYR, n. One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
- 47. Ambrose Bierce: PRECEDENT, n. In Law, a previous decision, rule or practice which, in the absenc ...
- 48. Ambrose Bierce: REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.
- 49. Ambrose Bierce: REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; as an elderly maiden's hand in marriage ...
- 50. Ambrose Bierce: RETRIBUTION, n. A rain of fire-and-brimstone that falls alike upon the just and ...
- 51. Ambrose Bierce: SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, e ...
- 52. Dwight David Eisenhower: Listen, there is no courage or any extra courage that I know of to find out the ...
- 53. Plato: He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.
- 54. D. H. Lawrence: One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something patheti ...
- 55. The Dalai Lama: Sometimes in my dreams there are women...When such dreams happen, immediately I ...
- 56. Robert Frost: Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- 57. Mark Twain: If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill always came together, who woul ...
- 58. Judith Martin: What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is add ...
- 59. Maggie Roche: Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.
- 60. George Bernard Shaw: There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The othe ...
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