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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it."

T. S. Eliot

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

Danny Elfman

Desire

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Charles Alexander Eastman

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

Wayne Dyer

Desire

Universe

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.

Marguerite Duras

Desire

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.