#desire

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ↗

— E. B. White

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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. ↗

— Fay Weldon

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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

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I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to. ↗

— William Wiley

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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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