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~ Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you. ~

HAL ROTHMAN

~ Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. ~

Malcolm Gladwell

~ Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you. ~

Stephen Vizinczey

~ Though Satan instills his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements. ~

John Calvin

~ Mother Veda is compassionate; she longs to liberate her children from doubt and discontent. She has no desire to inflame or confuse; wise men know this well. ~

Sri Sathya Sai Baba

~ There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. ~

Bill McKibben

~ Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ~

Rebecca West

~ The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart. ~

Price Pritchett

~ Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution. ~

Bertrand Russell

~ Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course. ~

John Drinkwater

~ Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. ~

G.K. Chesterton

~ The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. ~

Sextus Empiricus

~ Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction. ~

Samuel Johnson

~ Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand. ~

Edward Sapir

~ No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition. ~

Jeremy Taylor

~ That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution. ~

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

~ Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say. ~

Raymond Chandler

~ It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. ~

Anne Sullivan

~ Our treasure lies in the beehives of our knowledge. We are perpetually on our way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. The only thing that lies close to our heart is the desire to bring something home to the hive. ~

Friedrich Nietzsche

~ Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. ~

Leslie Stephen

~ Sexual desire and anger shall not seduce you, and the dog of greed shall depart. ~

Sri Guru Granth Sahib

~ Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. ~

Joseph Addison

~ A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~

Helen Rowland

~ A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. ~

Helen Rowland

~ The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ~

George Whitefield

~ Parenthood is not an object of appetite or even desire. It is an object of will. There is no appetite for parenthood; there is only a purpose or intention of parenthood. ~

Robin G. Collingwood

~ The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~

Confucius

~ Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. ~

Wallace Stevens

~ Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ~

Pierre Corneille

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