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Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon.
— Gustave Flaubert
Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone.
— Katherine Cecil Thurston
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
— Democritus
All of the great geniuses of the world were inspired and driven by their desire to enrich the lives of others.
— Robin Sharma
The bodywhips the soul. In its great desire
it demands the elixir
In the roar of spring,
transmutations. — Charles Olson
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
— William James
I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.
— Kim Cattrall
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Being eccentric is having a great desire to experiment without always being willing to spend much precious time thinking things through.
— Eric Vance Walton
I have always believed that the desire for revenge is one of life's great motivators, and my success would be my revenge
— Ann Patchett
I desire ... to leave this one great fact clearly stated. THERE IS NO WEALTH BUT LIFE.
— John Ruskin
God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.
— Richard Rohr
It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
— Guy Johnson
Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us.
— Ronald Reagan
I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there, but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.
— Allen Iverson
That's part of your curse. To drive men mad with desire and feel no pleasure"."Great," I muttered. "And all this time I thought I was frigid. — Kristina Douglas
Becoming a great leader, a great athlete, or great chef takes more than desire or even knowledge. It takes effort. It takes practice.
— Dave Anderson
So slowly the hot elephant heartsgrow full of desire,
and the great beasts mate in secret at last,
hiding their fire. — D.H. Lawrence
Those who are weak in spirit, desire to make others weaker.While the strong spirit, desire to empower others to be stronger. — Lailah Gifty Akita
I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.
— Muriel Spark
Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires. — Robert Gregory Browne
By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.
— George S. Patton
To be a great achiever you must have a desire, a will to live and determination to push through no matter what.
— Euginia Herlihy
God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.
— Catherine The Great
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
— Heraclitus
I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.
— Nikki Rowe
Sigmund Freud said that everything you and I do springs from two motives: the sex urge and the desire to be great. John
— Dale Carnegie
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
— Bryant H. McGill
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
— Dwight L. Moody
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.
— Joseph De Maistre
You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.
— George Pope Morris
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Abolition of slavery had been the deepest desire and the great labor of my life
— Frederick Douglass
I wanted so badly to believe, but the fear felt as great and overwhelming as the desire.
— Rachel Cohn
I feel a great desire to abandon myself with greater trust to the Divine Mercy and to place my hope in God alone.
— Pio Of Pietrelcina
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
— Euripides
I always had that desire to become a great athlete.
— Lauren Jackson
I guess I've never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue.
— Melanie Lynskey
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express
— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
— James Allen
I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.
— Alfred The Great
The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
— William Butler Yeats
Great as it is, the knowledge of self, if there is not that natural desire raging like fire does not manifest.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Well, I always had this desire to celebrate and somehow be a part of things that I thought were really great.
— John Hodgman
I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.
— Anna Howard Shaw
If we want great things to happen then we must create space in our lives for what we desire.
— Hina Hashmi
Horst was suddenly filled with great admiration for Miss Barrow, and a desire for popcorn.
— Jonathan L. Howard
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
