#desire

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay. ↗

— Sam Abell

#arts #desire #humans #moment #perfected

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Allen

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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#change #desire #every #his #hospital

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires. ↗

— Charles Bent

#desires #god #man #means #much

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

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Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. ↗

— Edwin Booth

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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#desire #kiss #me #out

Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conduct #democracy #desire #ever #feel

I had a very strong desire to be successful at something. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

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