Top Desire Quotes
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
George Bernard Shaw 
Marcus Fabius Quintilian 
Michael Pollan 
Richard Stallman 
Victor Salva 
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If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles 
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Oscar Levant
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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus
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There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
Robert Bourassa
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
Francesca Annis
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The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
Henri B. Stendhal
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In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
Philip Guston
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I don't think the players play with the same desire they once did.
Will McDonough
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