F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes, Desire Quotes, Want Quotes

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.

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And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon.

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Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill.

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God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

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Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.

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No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.

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[this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it

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What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.

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To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

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I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

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Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment.

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One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter.

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It is madness to risk losing what you need in pursuing what you simply desire.

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Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

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It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

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Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

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