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“Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do men like to get gifts for Valentine's Day, but they also like those gifts to be luxurious. Sixty-three percent of the people we surveyed agreed that this Valentine's Day, Johnnie Walker Blue Label is a great gift for the men in their lives.”

People Men Desire Three Found Focus He Man Percent Blue Traditional Labels Sixty Valentine Valentine's Day Surveys Walkers Great Gifts Luxurious

Author:Christopher Parsons

“I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.”

Source: The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her

“The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.”

Desire Three Ability Depends Credit Factors Volume

Author:Benjamin Graham

“What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this or that condition, but Passion, Love, Desire itself, and in such infinitely varied phases as lie in her unique possession and are foreign and unknown to any other tongue...So...Here's to Victory, gained by our higher sense over the worthlessness of the vulgar! To Love, which crowns our courage...To the day, to the night!...And three cheers for Music.”

Source: Pilgrimage to Beethoven and Other Essays

“Three enemies that will weaken your ministry over time: Self-indulgence, bitterness, and carelessness. Strong people discipline their desires, restrain their reactions, and keep their commitments.”

People Self Desire Three Strong Enemy Discipline Commitment Reactions Bitterness Ministry Indulgence Carelessness Self Indulgence Strong People

Author:Rick Warren

“After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.”

Desire Three Newspapers

Book:A Shilling for Candles

Source: A Shilling for Candles

“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

“If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.”

People Ifs Remember Desire Three Next Blood Security Cry Revolution Our Time Canada Taxation Neighbour Parcel

Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee

“NVC is language, thoughts, communication skills and means of influence that serve my desire to do three things: 1) to liberate myself from cultural learning that is in conflict with how I want to live my life. 2) to empower myself to connect with myself and others in a way that makes compassionate giving natural. 3) to empower myself to create structures that support compassionate giving.”

“The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action.”

Soul Facts Action Desire Three Animal Virtue Special Elements Capable Function Intellect Related Faculty Sensations Attainment

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes. You can take it to the movies, the beach or the North Pole. Just say where you want to go and believe that it will be so. Because every journey and ride begins with a desire to go somewhere and do something and if you have a desire then you also have the power to make it happen.”

Ifs Knows Want Believe Happens Desire Three Journey Beach Bus Three Times Make It Happen Did You Know North Pole Yes You Can

Author:Jon Gordon

“For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were just three strands of the same braid, all of them pulling toward the same beautiful desire: to try to understand the workings of this curious and beautiful world. There were many people who would have called themselves all three things at once: men of god, men of science, men of the arts.”

“[As a writer] you have to have the three D's: drive, discipline and desire. If you're missing any one of those three, you can have all the talent in the world, but it's going to be really hard to get anything done.”

Ifs World Hard Done Desire Three Talent Missing Discipline

Author:Nora Roberts