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The living all assemble! What's the cue?
Do what the clumsy partner wants to do! — Theodore Roethke

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do. — Sandor Marai

We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good. — Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

At what point do we admit that the NFL's true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed? — Steve Almond

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want. — P.D. Ouspensky

Put your hand on your heart and ask yourself, what do I want? The first thing that comes to mind is always the right one. — Layne Beachley

You are a sociopath, Adrius. You don't only do what you need to do. You wear whatever face you need, whatever emotion you desire like a glove. — Pierce Brown

Don't do what should not be done, and don't desire what should not be desired. Abide by this one precept, and everything else will follow. — Mencius

Our life is a gymnasium of desire ... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for." — Saint Augustine

It is easy to identify a shallow person by the attention he gives to what will do him absolutely no good. — Michael Bassey Johnson

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination. — Sathya Sai Baba

I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do. — Richie Sambora

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery. — Seneca The Younger

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do. — Charles Yu

Your desire to do what you want to do has to be greater than the world's desire to stop you. — Mark Pauline

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. — Compay Segundo

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes — William Shakespeare

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

What I want to know from students, and I ask them right away, is, 'What do you want? I don't care what it is. I want to help you get it. — Peter Schjeldahl

What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire — Mitch Albom

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen. — Christiane Amanpour

What is a man?
What is a woman?
Why are men and women attracted to each other?
Why do they desire each other?
Love ... what is it? — Yuu Watase

Most people spend most of their days doing what they do not want to do in order to earn the right, at times, to do what they may desire. — John Mason Brown

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do. — Marty Rubin

You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire. — T.F. Hodge

Repentance means change: Change in what you think, change in what you desire, change in what you do and say. It is the evidence of authentic faith. — Colin S. Smith

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give? — Jack Kornfield

When you need advice- do you seek someone who has proven success or do you get advice from people who have never achieved what you desire? — Robert G. Allen

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. — Epicurus

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder. — Dark Jar Tin Zoo

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire. — Theophile Gautier

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials. — Auliq Ice

If ambition is the desire to be the best at what you do, then I'm guilty. — Dave Checketts

It wasn't a glorious or grand act of misadventure but it was a start. It wasn't what I should have done but it was what I truly wanted to do. — S.A. Tawks

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire? — Alan Watts

Passion is that strong and mostly uncontrollable feeling of love that one has towards what he want to do or does. It is dependent on emotions. — Israelmore Ayivor

To acknowledge the absurdly surreal is the clarity to embrace life as it is, not as we desire it- what you do with this information, hell if I know — Josh Stern

What do you desire? What makes you itch? What sort of a situation would you like? — Alan W. Watts

Whatever it is I'm born to do, my fear of failing at it has almost become greater than my desire to figure out what it is. — Ann Kidd Taylor

People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton] — Don Draper From 'Mad Men'

If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty. — Julian Barnes

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day. — Lauren Fleshman

It is unjust to exact that men shall do out of deference to our advice what they have no desire to do for themselves. — Luc De Clapiers

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. — Charlie Chaplin

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire. — Slavoj Zizek

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness? — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

I don't have a desire to do reality. Because my truth is not what people are responding to. My truth is funny; I laugh with my husband every day. — Niecy Nash

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire. — Confucius

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone. — Pat Schneider

My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time. — Pablo Schreiber

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. — John Scalzi

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do. — Chris Isaak

It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire — Thucydides

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us. — Friedrich Nietzsche

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! — Louis Aragon

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we'll do what we want. — Daniel Willey

It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Listen to your own intuit. Have stronger wisdom to judge your own belief and things that you desire to do NOT what others want you to do. — Ashish Patel

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). — Stephen R. Covey

What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism. — Esther Perel

You never put off until tomorrow or even this afternoon what you can do this morning. Attack the objective when your desire is strongest. — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. — Jennifer Granholm

I know that I am honest and sincere in my desire to do well; but the question is whether I know enough to accomplish what I desire. — Grover Cleveland