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Her great desire, in fact, was to have something more solid, more tangible than love to rely upon. — Gustave Flaubert

Anger and desire for revenge can be a great motivating force. It's either that or you allow it to affect your confidence and that can be crippling. — Seamus Dever

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 body

whips 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 found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them. — Charlie Chaplin

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

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent. — Henry Rollins

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 hearts
grow 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

This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun. — Anais Nin

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

If then you desire (aim at) such great things remember that you must not (attempt to) lay hold of them with a small effort; — Epictetus

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

I have a great desire to serve humanity without ever actually getting off my chair. — Cyrus Broacha

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

Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. — John Balguy

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

A big tent is great and all, but there has to be a line in the sand, and I'm pretty sure the desire to legislate other women's bodies is it. — Andi Zeisler

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

If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream. — John Henry Jowett

The great chefs understand human desire. They can balance nurturing with the desire to dazzle or seduce or impress. — David Blum