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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Desire'

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Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
Sam Abell, American Photographer
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
F. Murray Abraham, American Actor (1939-  )
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams, American President (1735-1826)
An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
Felix Adler, German Educator (1851-1933)
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
Felix Adler, German Educator (1851-1933)
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
Mortimer Adler, American Philosopher (1902-2001)
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus, Greek Poet
Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.
Andre Agassi, American Athlete (1970-  )
All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.
Spiro T. Agnew, American Politician (1918-1996)
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
Shmuel Y. Agnon, -
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian Statesman (1956-  )
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard Aiken, American Scientist (1900-1973)
It's so much better to desire than to have.
Anouk Aimee, French Actress (1932-  )
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, American Poet (1836-1907)
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher (1859-1938)
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher (1859-1938)
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
Samuel Alexander, Australian Philosopher (1859-1938)
The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
William R. Alger, American Writer
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen, British Author
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen, British Author
 
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