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
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg 
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Herbert Spencer
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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne
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I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Diane Lane
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It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
William Gurnall
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To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton
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I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Matthew Barney
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I can score 20 points if I want to, but that's not my desire.
Dennis Rodman
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