T Quotes
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“The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”
“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.”
Source: The Major Works
“The desire that we feel toward God is our way of expressing our need for a relationship with the One who consoles us, curing us and revealing to us the sense of our existence.”
Source: An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels
“The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.”
“The desire the law makers have in having only dispensary owners to control marijuana is part of the game our law makers play to create a bureau of specific business created that owes its allegiance to the political process and therefore will make sure that process continues.”
“The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.”
“The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.”
“The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.”
Source: Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it.”
“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”
"Don't vote. It just encourages them....”
“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.”
“The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.”
Source: Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties
“The desire to be better understood has been extinguished from my heart.”
“The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.”
“The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.”
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.”
Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“The desire to be famous is so common and so intense that genuinely not wanting to be famous is likely to make you famous.”
“The desire to be good to all with no restrictions - not in the quantity of those to whom we are good nor in the quality of the good we perform - that is the inner nucleus of the essence of the soul of Israel.”
“The desire to be liked is acceptable in real life but very problematic in fiction. Pleasantness is the enemy of good fiction. I try to write on the premise that no one is going to read my work. Because there's this terrible impulse to grovel before the reader, to make them like you, to write with the reader in mind in that way. It prevents you doing work that is ugly or upsetting or difficult. The temptation is to not be true to what you want to write and to be considerate or amusing instead. I'm always trying to fight against the impulse to make my readers like me.”
“The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.”
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”
Source: Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
“The desire to be nice to everyone and please everyone and the inability to firmly say no is what destroys believers most of all”
“The desire to be noticed has always been an essential part of the human condition.”
Source: What We Want: A Journey Through Twelve of Our Deepest Desires
“The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.”
“The desire to be perfect is a maternal parasite, passed from mother to child through the placenta”
Source: Melodia
“The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.”
Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes
“The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.”
Source: Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman
“The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.”
“The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire”
Source: The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity
“The desire to be significant casts a pall.”
“The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.”
“The desire to be the object of public attention is weak, but the excessive dread of it is but a form of vanity and over-self-contemplativeness.”
Source: Memoir and Letters of Sara Coleridge
“The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.”
“The desire to be wealthy is a good one. It allows you to be useful to those close to you and your community. To be of service should be the intent of your desire to acquire material wealth.”
“The desire to become a member of society always overpowers the shame of being embraced by their system.”
Source: Walking Practice
“The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.”
Source: The hounds of summer and other stories: Mary McCarthy's short fiction
“The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.”
Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER
“The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.”
“The desire to build a house is the tired wish of a man content thenceforward with a single anchorage. The desire to build a boat is the desire of youth, unwilling yet to accept the idea of a final resting place.”
Source: Racundra's third cruise
“The desire to categorize humans along racial lines, and the impulse to superpose attributes such as intelligence (or criminality, creativity, or violence) on those lines, illustrates a general theme concerning genetics and categorization. Like the English novel, or the face, say, the human genome can be lumped and split in a million different ways. But whether to split or lump, to categorize or synthesize, is a choice. ... The narrower the definition of the heritable feature or the trait, the more likely we will find a genetic locus for that trait, and the more likely we will find that the trait will segregate within some human sub-population.”
Source: The Gene: An Intimate History
“The desire to change others cloaks your desire to change yourself.”
“The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.”
“The desire to confess ... lies at the root of most fiction writing.”
“The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.”
Source: Daniel Deronda
“The desire to convince oneself that writing is at least as alive as life itself, was recently reflected by a New York Times report on brain-scan research which claims that as we read about action in novels the areas of the brain that would be responsible for such action in real life—those that respond to sound, smell, texture, movement, etc.—are activated by words. 'The brain, it seems,' writes the journalist, 'does not make much distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life: in each case, the same neurological regions are stimulated.'
What nonsense! As if reading about sex or violence in any way prepared us for the experience of its intensity.”
Source: Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books
“The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“The desire to create holds an element of hope. Success proves that Hope is not a by-product of living; it is a Building Block of life."
Francesca Quarto”
Source: Wolf Master of Iron Mountain
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.”
“The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. No matter our talents, education, backgrounds, or abilities, we each have an inherent wish to create something that did not exist before. Creation brings satisfaction and fulfillment. We develop ourselves and others when we take organized matter into our hands and mold it into something of beauty.”
“The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.”