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“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

“I equate inspiration with desire the desire that moves us to be artists in the first place. To attempt to make a painting without this motivation is a waste of time.”

Firsts Inspiration Moving Desire Artist Motivation Painting Waste Wasting Time

Author:Nita Engle

“An Italian philosopher said that "time was his estate"; an estate indeed which will produce nothing without cultivation, but will always abundantly repay the labors of industry, and generally satisfy the most extensive desires, if no part of it be suffered to lie in waste by negligence, to be overrun with noxious plants, or laid out for show rather than for use.”

Ifs Said Use Shows Lying Desire Produce Industry One Day Waste Labor Plant Philosopher Italian Estates Cultivation Negligence

Author:Samuel Johnson

“I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.”

Kind Mean Desire Emotional Waste Addiction Chemicals Twelve Columns

Author:Carrie Fisher

“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”

“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.”

“You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you any good. All it does is feed a constant desire to feel sorry for yourself, because you were the victim of people stronger than you. Or else it makes you go to the other extreme and disguise yourself as an avenger ready to strike out at the people who hurt you. Isn't that a waste of time?...It is human, but it's not intelligent or reasonable.”

“It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.”

Helping Shows Desire Money Waste Insightful Saving Money

Author:Taylor Caldwell

“When your desire is to bring peace and harmony to the world, then you will have to start by finding peace and harmony within your own heart. It is a waste of time talking about peace. You have to seek and find that consciousness of peace which nothing and no one can disturb, and remain in it.”

World Heart Desire Consciousness Talking Waste Findings Harmony Inner Peace Wasting Time Finding Peace Peace And Harmony

Author:Eileen Caddy

“All should be taught that the highest ambition is to be happy, and to add to the well-being of others; that place and power are not necessary to success; that the desire to acquire great wealth is a kind of insanity. They should be taught that it is a waste of energy, a waste of thought, a waste of life, to acquire what you do not need and what you do not really use for the benefit of yourself or others.”

Needs Should Wells Kind Use Desire Energy Wealth Money Taught Waste Benefits Ambition Highest Add Well Being Insanity Acquire Waste Of Life

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll