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“What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.”

People Thinking Moments Desire Party Constitution Burning Aspiration Opposition Vietnam Burning Desire Opposition Parties

Author:Nong ?uc Manh

“I don't have a burning desire to act strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.”

Ifs Knows Persons Enough Young Desire Actors Personality Chosen Burning Burning Desire

Author:Jodie Foster

“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.”

Two Desire Objects Burning Absent Burning Desire

Author:Roland Barthes

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“The world that seemed so various and new, well, it does contract. One's burning desire to investigate human behavior, and to make, or imply, statements about it, does fall off. And so one does find that early works are full of energy and also full of vulgarity, crudity, and incompetence, and later works are more carefully finished, and in that sense better literary products. But . . . there's often a freshness that is missing in later works--for every gain there's a loss. I think it evens out in that way.”

“Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!”

Looks Light Eye Desire Pleasure Darkness Mystery Creation Shapes Angel Burning Glorious Within You Burning Desire

Author:Hildegard of Bingen

“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.”

Humans Action Desire Burning Human Actions Implants Burning Desire

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.”

Writing Desire Burning Indispensable Burning Desire

Book:Idiosyncrasy & Technique

Source: Idiosyncrasy & Technique

“I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.”

Looks Desire Photography Photographer Burning Burning Desire

Author:Garry Winogrand

“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.”

Desire Achieve Ordinary Burning Burning Desire

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)