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“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

“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”

Self Enough Desire Culture Gone Fashion Shapes Contemporary Emphasis

Author:Lionel Trilling

“Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.”

Way Enough Desire Prayer Effort Harvest Adequate Reap

Book:Touch the World Through Prayer

Source: Touch the World Through Prayer

“The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge about himself, about his environment and the forces by which he is surrounded, gives life its meaning and purpose, and clothes it with final dignity.... And yet we know, deep in our hearts, that knowledge is not enough.... Unless we can anchor our knowledge to moral purposes, the ultimate result will be dust and ashes- dust and ashes that will bury the hopes and monuments of men beyond recovery.”

“But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.”

Source: Outspoken essays

“There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

Knows Enough Desire Sin Greater Oneself Curse Misfortunes Discontent Tao Te Ching Leadership Enough Is Enough

Book:道德经

Source: 道德经

“Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?”

May Enough Desire Evil Waste Betray Modesty Sanctuary Lightness

Book:Measure for Measure

Source: Measure for Measure

“The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art. He needs no one to give him an 'Art Education'; he is already qualified. He needs but to see pictures with his active mind, look into them for the things that belong to him, and he will find soon enough in himself an art connoisseur and an art lover of the first order.”

Source: The Art Spirit

“Take, O Lord, and receive my entire liberty, my memory, my understanding and my whole will. All that I am and all that I possess You have given me. I surrender it all to You to be disposed of according to Your will. Give me only Your love and Your grace; with these I will be rich enough, and will desire nothing more.”

Giving Enough Whole Desire Given Understanding Memories Liberty Lord Rich Grace Give Me Surrender Catholicism

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.”

Soul Enough Dream Desire Fantasy Lyrical Supple

Author:Claude Debussy

“If the desire to get somewhere is strong enough in a person, his whole being, conscious and unconscious, is always at work, looking for and devising means to get to the goal.”

Ifs Mean Persons Enough Whole Desire Strong Goal Conscious Unconscious Strong Enough Conscious And Unconscious Devising Devising Means

Author:Frederick Philip Grove

“Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of "inspiration" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact.”

“The problem is not the harshness of Fate, for anything we want strongly enough we get. The trouble is rather that when we have it we grow sick of it, and then we should never blame Fate, only our own desire.”

Want Should Enough Problem Desire Grows Fate Trouble Sick Blame Harshness

Author:Cesare Pavese

“He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more.”

Want Should Enough Desire

Author:Horace

“All greatness in style begins, I imagine, with such respect, deep and passionate enough to produce a humility which will not assert itself at the expense even of inanimate things: out of which submissiveness a desire to serve is born, in disinterested accuracy toward the object, whatever it may be.”

May Enough Desire Born Imagine Style Objects Greatness Produce Humility Passionate Expenses Accuracy Disinterested

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.”

Ifs Knows May I Can Enough Faces Desire Humility Sight Blind Deeper Intense Steady Veils Rise Above Knowing God Pierce Blind Faith

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“The great object of the Christian is duty; his predominant desire to obey God. When he can please the world consistently with these, he will do so; otherwise it is enough for him that God commands, and enough for them that he cannot disobey.”

World Enough Christian Desire Objects Duty Please Command Consistently

Book:Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

Source: Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character

“There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.”

Thinking Needs Wells Enough Desire Democracy Citizens Difficulty Prejudice Institutions Presses Stupidity Dues Exploitation Urgent Freedom Of The Press Parliamentary Personal Desire

Author:Susan Stebbing

“What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata, a physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.”

Years Enough Desire Three Magic Tree Expression Thousand Mountain China Frustrated Thousand Years Monk Halfway Legendary Inexplicable Monasteries Bamboo Roost Swordsman

Book:Broken Homes

Source: Broken Homes

“But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs.”

Knows Littles Enough Desire Judging Paradise Neighbour Hints

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“I have a new name for pain. What's that? The Obliterator. Because when you're in pain, nothing else can exist. Not thought. Not emotion. Only the drive to escape the pain. When it's strong enough, the Obliterator strips us of everything that makes us who we are, until we're reduced to creatures less than animals, creatures with a single desire and goal: escape. A good name, then.”

Enough Pain Desire Names Strong Goal Animal Emotion Creatures Who We Are Strong Enough Eldest

Book:The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“It is not for man to seek, or even to believe in, God. He only has to refuse his ultimate love to everything that is not God. This refusal does not presuppose any belief. It is enough to recognize what is obvious to any mind: that all the goods of this world, past, present, and future, real or imaginary, are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good.”

“If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.”

Ifs Done Enough Desire Photograph Crafts Homework

Author:Ansel Adams

“Maybe this is all a bit of a myth, a willful desire to give each place its own unique aura. But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave? The myth of unique urban character and unique sensibilities in different cities exists because we want it to exist.”

People Ifs Want Giving Kind Different Enough Character Desire Belief Bits Cities Unique Determine Myth Behave Collectives Sensibility Urban Auras

Author:David Byrne

“Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.”

Needs Humans Enough Joy Desire Expression Aspiration Geometry

Author:Akira Yoshizawa

“It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. Our audience must experience not only the ways to free Prometheus, but be schooled in the very desire to free him. Theater must teach all the pleasures and joys of discovery, all the feelings of triumph associated with liberation.”

“There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.”

Enough Lasts Desire Our Love Submission Last Words Remorse Revolt Enough Time

Author:Joseph Conrad

“Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.”

Enough Action Desire Expectations Lively

Author:Mason Cooley

“Research is an organized method of trying to find out what you are going to do after you cannot do what you are doing now. It may also be said to be the method of keeping a customer reasonably dissatisfied with what he has. That means constant improvement and change so that the customer will be stimulated to desire the new product enough to buy it to replace the one he has.”

Trying May Mean Said Enough Desire Products Research Method Constant Customers Improvement Organized Dissatisfied New Products Constant Improvement

Author:Charles Kettering

“Sexuality is a part of our behavior. It's part of our world freedom. Sexuality is something that we ourselves create. It is our own creation, and much more than the discovery of a secret side of our desire. We have to understand that with our desires go new forms of relationships, new forms of love, new forms of creation. Sex is not a fatality; it's a possibility for creative life. It's not enough to affirm that we are gay but we must also create a gay life.”

World Enough Form Desire Sex Sides Secret Creative Creation Possibility Gay Behavior Discovery Sexuality Our World Homosexuality Creative Life Fatality Forms Of Love Gay Life

Author:Michel Foucault

“The two most powerful nations of the world had been squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. You'd have thought that war was inevitable. But both sides showed that if the desire to avoid war is strong enough, even the most pressing dispute can be solved by compromise. And a compromise over Cuba was indeed found.”

Ifs World Two War Enough Desire Found Strong Nations Sides Powerful Fingers Compromise Inevitable Most Powerful Buttons Both Sides Disputes Strong Enough Cuba

Author:Nikita Khrushchev

“In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.”

People Done Enough Used Lying Desire Choices Left Secret Fiction Trouble Source Proud Exercise Cat Shame Silent Work Out Nine Curious Fascinated Listeners Undone Rough Times Avid Nine Lives

Author:Marge Piercy

“You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.”

Ifs Want Inspirational Enough Desire Belief Energy Positive Confidence Accomplish Self Confidence Esteem Aspiration Self Motivation Fashionable Hustle Have Confidence Self Transformation Boost Self Confidence Motivational Sales Determination And Success Belief In Self Self Esteem And Confidence Achieving Success Exuberance Singleness Sophia Confidence Boosting Boost Your Confidence Confidence Building Boost Your Self Esteem Building Confidence Confidence And Love Self Power Passion And Success Power Of Intention Power Of Belief Desire To Achieve Inspirational Confidence Self Confidence Motivational Desire For Success Short Never Give Up Inspirational Self Confidence Raise Self Esteem Self Inspirational Passion And Desire Self Confidence Building Singleness Of Purpose Effort And Success Not Giving Up Hope Positive Thinking Images Accomplishing Anything Purpose And Passion Awesome Motivational Sheila

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I entrusted myself, in what dolorous and ravishing world has my imagination enclosed me? I am sure of having been loved in the most mysterious of domains, my own. The language of my love does not belong to human language, my human body does not touch the flesh of my love. My amorous imagination has always been constant and high enough so that nothing could attempt to convince me of error.”

“There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.”

Men Life Wells Long Enough Desire Evil Greater Deeds Good Deeds Long Life Live Well Desire To Live

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

“A decision is the focusing of the Energy of desire, and the decision point happens when the desire is powerful enough.”

Enough Happens Desire Energy Decision Powerful Law Of Attraction

Author:Esther Hicks

“A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth - and joy. Make a 'career' of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you - and what you do 'for a living' makes you happy - you have found the best of all combinations.”

Source: Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition

“Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”

Enough Desire Humanity Universe Goal Description Quests Justification Continuing Desire For Knowledge

Author:Stephen Hawking

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