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Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

Quote by Albert Camus about people, hope, man

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, love, people

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about glory, contempt, praise, books, man

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about conscience, opinion, virtue, light, public, being, good, good luck, people

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce...

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about order, home, affair, world, good, good luck

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about eyes, love, reason

The empty cradle is fueled too by versions of feminism that encourage women to repress or distrust maternal desire.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about encouragement

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about culture, marriage, sex

Becoming a producer enables you to empower yourself, to make the film that you want to make. I have desires to make movies - I have movies I'm developing, and things that I'm interested in.

Quote by Andy Garcia about film, things, contentment

I had a Nagra, one of the first portable machines. I started collecting sounds without any preconceived notions other than a desire to insert into musical discourse a sound that basically didn't belong there.

Quote by Luc Ferrari

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Quote by William Godwin about perseverance, influence, principle

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

Quote by William Godwin about reason, love

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

Quote by Alexander Hamilton about guvernement

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Quote by Frank Herbert about liberty

The music I'm writing now, there's a certain longing in it, a certain desire for a romantic relationship.

Quote by Billy Joel about longing, writing, music

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wealth, man

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about conversation, man

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about real estate, life

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about ambition, home, happiness, end