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#desire

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I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.


Christopher Columbus


#april #because #could #desire #discoveries

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.


Nia Vardalos


#desire #list #lose #new #pounds

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.


Catherynne M. Valente


#heart #dreams

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.


John Dewey


#desire #heart #memory #nearer #reality

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.


Denis Diderot


#desire #fact #in fact #product #said

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."


T. S. Eliot


#being #call #cup #dear #desire

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.


Anthony Liccione


#give-all #impulse #instinct #love #sacrifice

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.


Clyde Tombaugh


#desire #find #had #how #i

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.


Robert Toombs


#benefit #congress #day #desire #first

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.


Lao Tzu


#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness






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