Niccol  - Quotes

 Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. 

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Bottle Shock  - Quotes

 Gustavo Brambila:
You people, you think you can just buy your way into this. You cannot do it that way.
Jim Barrett:
Alright...
Gustavo Brambila:
You have to have it in your blood, you have to grow up with the soil underneath your nails, the smell of the grapes in the air that you breathe. The cultivation of the vine was an art form. The refinement of the vine is a religion that requires pain and desire and sacrifice.
 

Boy Culture  - Quotes

 Gregory Talbot:
You don't desire me. You're just confused... and lonely... and horny.
 

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Apt Pupil  - Quotes

 Todd Bowden:
All great achievements arose from dissatisfaction. It is the desire to do better, to dig deeper that propels a civilization to greatness. All of us have heard the story of Icarus, the young boy who took the wings his father built for him. Wings that were meant to carry him over the ocean to freedom and used them instead for a joyride. For a brief moment Icarus felt what it was like to live like a god, to touch the sun, to soar above the common man. And for doing so he payed the ultimate price. Like Icarus we too have been given gifts: knowledge, education, experience. And with these gifts comes the responsibility of choice. We alone decide how our talents are bestowed upon the world. This is our destiny and we hold it in the palm of our hands.
 

Fireproof  - Quotes

 Pastor Strauss:
It is the desire of Caleb and Catherine to establish their vows from this point on as a covenant, and not a contract. For marriage is a sacred institution established by God and one that is meant to last for life. Caleb, in the presence of God and these witnesses, do you come today to freely and unconditionally commit to this covenant marriage with Catherine?
Caleb Holt:
I do.
Pastor Strauss:
And Catherine, do you come today to freely and unconditionally commit to this covenant marriage to Caleb?
Catherine Holt:
I do. With all my heart.
 

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Palindromes  - Quotes

 Mark Wiener:
People always end up the way they started out. No one ever changes. They think they do but they don't. If you're the depressed type now that's the way you'll always be. If you're the mindless happy type now, that's the way you'll be when you grow up. You might lose some weight, your face may clear up, get a body tan, breast enlargement, a sex change, it makes no difference. Essentially, from in front, from behind. Whether you're 13 or 50, you will always be the same.
'Mark' Aviva Victor:
Are you the same?
Mark Wiener:
Yeah.
'Mark' Aviva Victor:
Are you glad you're the same?
Mark Wiener:
It doesn't matter if I'm glad. There's no freewill. I mean, I have no choice but to chose what I choose, to do as I do, to live as I live. Ultimately, we're all just robots programmed abritrarily by nature's genetic code
'Mark' Aviva Victor:
Isn't there any hope?
Mark Wiener:
For what? We hope or despair because of the way we've been programmed. Genes and randomness, that's all there is and none of it matters.
'Mark' Aviva Victor:
Does that mean you're never going get married and have children?
Mark Wiener:
I have no anent desire to get married or have kids. But that's beyond my control. Really, it makes no difference. Since the planet's fast running out of natural resources and we won't make it into the next century.
'Mark' Aviva Victor:
What if you're wrong? What if there is a God?
Mark Wiener:
That makes me feel better.
 

Roman Payne  - Quotes

 The lot of the bride

to be wed before bed

desired until rotten.

The lot of the author

to be read before bed

admired then forgotten.
 

Tags: admiration   authors   brides   desire   funny   humor   humour   marriage   payne   roman   weddings   writers     
Mick Jagger  - Quotes

 You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need. 

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Sense and Sensibility  - Quotes

 Colonel Brandon:
Your sister seems very happy.
Elinor Dashwood:
Yes. Marianne does not approve of hiding her emotions. In fact, her romantic prejudices have the unfortunate tendency to set propriety at naught.
Colonel Brandon:
She is wholly unspoilt.
Elinor Dashwood:
Rather too unspoilt, in my view. The sooner she becomes acquainted with the ways of the world, the better.
Colonel Brandon:
I knew a lady very like your sister - the same impulsive sweetness of temper - who was forced into, as you put it, a better acquaintance with the world. The result was only ruination and despair. Do not desire it, Miss Dashwood.
 

Tom McDonough  - Quotes

 A mental disease has swept the planet: banalization. Everyone is hypnotized by production and comfort -- sewage system, elevator, bathroom, washing machine.



This state of affairs, which arose out of a struggle against poverty, overshoots its ultimate goal -- the liberation of humanity from material cares -- and becomes an obsessive image hanging over the present. Between love and a garbage disposal, young people of all countries have made their choice and prefer the garbage disposal. A complete and sudden change of spirit has become essential, by bringing to light forgotten desires and creating entirely new ones. And by an intensive propaganda in favor of these desires.



Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov)
 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. 

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Kingdom of Heaven  - Quotes

 Nasir:
[a Saracen knight yells at Balian in Arabic] He says, that is his horse.
Balian of Ibelin:
Why would it be his horse?
Nasir:
Because it is on his land.
Balian of Ibelin:
I took this horse from the sea.
Nasir:
[Nasir translates, the knight yells again] He says you are a great liar and he will fight you because you are a liar.
Balian of Ibelin:
I have no desire to fight.
Nasir:
Then you must give him the horse. [Balian draws his sword]
 

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Simple Men  - Quotes

 Ned Riffle:
I want adventure. I want romance.
Bill McCabe:
Ned, there is no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
Ned Riffle:
Trouble and desire.
Bill McCabe:
That's right. And the funny thing is, when you desire something you immediately get into trouble. And when you're in trouble you don't desire anything at all.
Ned Riffle:
I see.
Bill McCabe:
It's impossible.
Ned Riffle:
It's ironic.
Bill McCabe:
It's a fucking tragedy is what it is, Ned.
 

Husbands and Wives  - Quotes

 Gabe:
What happened after the honeymoon? Did desire grow or did familiarity make partners want other lovers? Was the notion of ever-deepening romance a myth along with simultaneous orgasm? The only time Rifkin and his wife experienced one was when they were granted their divorce. Maybe in the end, the idea was not to expect too much out of life.
 

Faster  - Quotes

 Dr. Claudio Costa:
It is incredible what a rider filled with irrational desire can achieve.
 

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Paulo Coelho  - Quotes

 Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us,... 

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Elizabeth Gilbert  - Quotes

 Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody 

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PCU  - Quotes

 Droz:
Ok, now it's true, the majority of students today are so cravenly PC, they wouldn't know a good time if it was sitting on their face, but there's one thing that will always unite us and them. They're young. They may not realize it yet. They've got the same raging hormones, the same self-destructive desire to get boldly trashed and wildly out of control. Look out that window! That's not a protest! That is cry for help! They're begging us... [shouts]
Droz:
Please have a party! Feed us drinks! [Continues shouting]
Droz:
Get us laid! Aahhhhhh!
 

Contention  - Quotes

 Sniper:
[narrating] Waiting is something done in the anticipation of a personal benefit. The accusation of something needed or wanted, only attained through the sacrifice of personal time. However, when time is all that ones owns, is its offering still assumed to be waiting? Is it still a sacrifice if it is one's desire to rid himself of his perpetual torment? No. It no longer serves as waiting if it is one's utmost desire to spend it in linger. Other motives seep into play, other feelings, other cravings. It becomes a hunt. Time is spent, in actuality, no waiting, but formulating, plotting, devising methods of snatching what he yearns for as soon as it comes into view. And when the hunted is naïve, the strong only becomes stronger. Peaceful meadows will be turned into a wasteland. He has left his den like a lion seeking its prey. And their land will be made desolate by the sword of the enemy and the Lord's fierce anger.
 

The Other Boleyn Girl  - Quotes

 Mary Boleyn:
[as she enters the room] Anne.
Anne Boleyn:
I meant to come sooner. I'm sorry I did not. I've been kept occupied.
Mary Boleyn:
So I hear: amusing the king.
Anne Boleyn:
Only that sister, I assure you; despite his best efforts...
Mary Boleyn:
What, and not yours?
Anne Boleyn:
[is silent for a moment] How is it? [glances towards Mary's belly]
Mary Boleyn:
The child is strong, gives me no rest, like his father.
Anne Boleyn:
Do you feel as awful as you look? You know, in France, no woman would allow herself to get in such a state.
Mary Boleyn:
Why did you come Anne, if all you desire is to torment me?
Anne Boleyn:
Perhaps now you know how it feels: to be deceived by your sister.
Mary Boleyn:
I did nothing.
Anne Boleyn:
You stole the king away, and then you betrayed me over Henry Percy!
Mary Boleyn:
If that's what you think fine tell yourself that!
Anne Boleyn:
I did sister, every day and every night I was in exile.
King's Messenger:
[Messenger walks in, holding a gift] A gift, from the king.
Anne Boleyn:
Give it to my sister.
King's Messenger:
It's for you mistress Anne.
Anne Boleyn:
Me? Then send it back! Immediately! [looks at Mary]
Anne Boleyn:
How dare he! See? I have your interest at heart.
Mary Boleyn:
Why? Why this cruelty? You know I love him.
Anne Boleyn:
Well perhaps you should stop.
 

Joseph Campbell  - Quotes

 [T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16) 

Tags: acceptance   desire   expectations   fear   mystery     
Ghost World  - Quotes

 Seymour:
Let the machine get it, I have no desire to talk to anyone who might be calling me.
 

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Michael Ondaatje  - Quotes

 Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book. 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. 

Tags: absurdity   desire   truth     
Frank Herbert  - Quotes

 The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called  

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Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer is automatically self-contradictory: 'Only if I did not know that I was doing so.' To go through the entire experience once more would be banal and Sisyphean 

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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King  - Quotes

 Denethor:
[to Faramir, about his loyalty] Ever you desire to appear lordly and gracious as a king of old. Boromir would have remembered his father's need. He would have brought me a kingly gift.
Faramir:
Boromir would not have brought the Ring. He would have stretched out his hand to this thing, and taking it, he would have fallen.
Denethor:
You know nothing of this matter!
Faramir:
He would have kept it for his own! And when he returned, you would not have known your son.
Denethor:
[jumping up angrily] Boromir was loyal to me! Not some wizard's pupil! [Denethor cries and falls back into his chair; Faramir approaches him]
Faramir:
Father? [Denethor looks over Faramir's shoulder and smiles]
Denethor:
My son! [an image of Boromir appears behind Faramir. Boromir smiles and then the image fades. Denethor is left looking at Faramir. His mood shifts back to anger]
Denethor:
Leave me! [Faramir hesitates and departs]
 

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Shadows and Fog  - Quotes

 Clown:
I never do it with whores. You start out with a burning desire and then you end up the next day with a burning sensation if you know what I mean...
 

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Aldous Huxley  - Quotes

 Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of. 

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Anne Morrow Lindbergh  - Quotes

 The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires. 

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Paulo Coelho  - Quotes

 Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone. 

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Roman Payne  - Quotes

 To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. 

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The Rising of the Moon  - Quotes

 Bobby Sands:
If they aren't able to destroy the desire for freedom, they won't break you.
 

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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring  - Quotes

 Galadriel:
It began with the forging of the Great Rings. Three were given to the Elves; immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings. Seven, to the Dwarf Lords, great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls. And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of Men, who above all else desire power. For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern over each race. But they were all of them deceived, for a new ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret, a master ring, to control all others. And into this ring he poured all his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. One ring to rule them all. One by one, the free peoples of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A last alliance of men and elves marched against the armies of Mordor, and on the very slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle-Earth. Victory was near, but the power of the ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the king, took up his father's sword. And Sauron, enemy of the free peoples of Middle-Earth, was defeated. The Ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever, but the hearts of men are easily corrupted. And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur, to his death. And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, the ring ensnared another bearer. The ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels under the Misty Mountains, and there it consumed him. The ring gave to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years it poisoned his mind; and in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear, and the Ring of Power perceived. Its time had now come. It abandoned Gollum. But then something happened that the Ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable. A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, of the Shire. For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all...
 

Demolition Man  - Quotes

 Lenina Huxley:
The exchange of bodily fluids, do you know what that leads to?
John Spartan:
Yeah, I do! Kids, smoking, a desire to raid the fridge.
 

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Toni Morrison  - Quotes

 For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction. 

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Flywheel  - Quotes

 Jay Austin:
The desire for my heart is to finish well.
 

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Ayn Rand  - Quotes

 ...It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world. 

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Oscar Wilde  - Quotes

 If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. 

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Lev Grossman  - Quotes

 I got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began. 

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Jean de la Fontaine  - Quotes

 Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires. 

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The Joy Luck Club  - Quotes

 An-Mei:
I tell you the story because I was raised the Chinese way. I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, and to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way. Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl, and I was born to my mother and I was born a girl, all of us like stairs, one step after another, going up, going down, but always going the same way. No, this cannot be, this not knowing what you're worth, this not begin with you. My mother not know her worth until too late - too late for her, but not for me. Now we will see if not too late for you, hmm?
 

Dawson Trotman  - Quotes

 Discipline imposed from the outside eventually defeats when it is not matched by desire from within. 

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Drag Me to Hell  - Quotes

 Shaun San Dena:
[possessed by the Lamia] I desire the SOUL of Christine Brown. We will FEAST upon it while she festers in the grave!
 

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Eduardo Hughes Galeano  - Quotes

 I have never killed anybody, it is true, but it is because I lacked the courage or the time, not because I lacked the desire 

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Along Came a Spider  - Quotes

 Alex:
To be brutally honest, I think you have a morbid desire to burn in hell.
 

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The Road to Wellville  - Quotes

 Interviewer:
Sir, how often should one evacuate one's bowels?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
One should never, ever, interrupt one's desire to defecate. I have inquired at the Bronx and London Zoos as to the daily bowel evacuations of primates. It is not once, twice, or three times, sir, but four. At the end of an average day, their cages are filled with a veritable mountain of natural health.
Interviewer:
And, sex?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
Sex is the sewer drain of a healthy body, sir! Any use of the sexual act other than procreation is a waste of vital energy! Wasted seeds are wasted lives!
Interviewer:
Uh, eating meat?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
"He that killeth the ox is as if he slew a man." Each juicy morsel of meat is alive, and swarming with the same filth as found in the carcass of a dead rat. Meat eaters, sir, are drowning in a tide of gore. What is a sausage? A sausage is an indigestible balloon of decayed beef, riddled with tuberculosis. Eat and die! For I have seen many a repentant meat glutton his body full of uric acid and remorse, his soul adrift on the raft in the ocean of poisonous slime, sloshin' against the walls of the body's kitchen.
Interviewer:
Smoking?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
The liver is the only thing standing between the smoker and death! Also certain other things have to be avoided... like, uh, feather beds, and romantic novels... and the, uh, touching of one's organs. Masturbation is the silent killer of the night! The vilest sin of self-pollution! It is the sin of Onan!
Interviewer:
Uh, Dr. Kellogg, how did you come to invent the corn flake?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
The corn flake, sir, is just one of my 75 creations for heathy livin', among them peanut butter and the electric blanket.
Interviewer:
And what about your imitators? There are 103 other corn flakes presently being manufactured here in Battle Creek!
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
Sir, corn is the injuns gift to the new world, and the corn flake is my gift to the entire world.
Interviewer:
And what do you think about your brother?
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg:
My brother, W.K. Kellogg, worked for me as a low-paid assistant for many years. Now he's off on his own and amassin' fortunes with my corn flake invention. Unfortunately, he has chosen the family name to promote it. But the whole world knows only one Kellogg: me, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg! Surgeon, inventor, author, and crusader for biological livin'! I do not seek monetary rewards, for I am called to a greater glory. Here at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the spirits soar, the mind is educated, and the bowels - -the bowels are born again!
 

When Will I Be Loved  - Quotes

 
[Ford is trying to convince Vera to sleep with the Count for money]
Ford:
I'm a mentor. I'm not a hustler. I'm a conduit, I'm a circuit. Listen... Listen to me very carefully. My whole mission on this planet right now in relation to you is to introduce you to yourself. You know that. You're a deeply sexual human being. You have major erotic power. The easiest thing, and the most selfish, would be to convince you to lend yourself to one person, even if that one person was myself. That would be suffocating to you, and ignoble of me. That's what a hustler would do, and I refuse to hustle. I'm looking to lead you down the path of Ovid and Sappho, D.H. Lawrence, Edna Saint Vincent Millay, to say nothing of the whole hip-hop revolution. It's the path of the Bible: "Seek and you shall find. Know thyself". You're so ready right now to open yourself to discover your capacity for multiple men; multiple in the sense of at least a few. Maybe not at the same time, but sequentially. And - I know I'm getting ahead of myself here and you might not want to hear this because you're at least a year away from being there - but at some point you gonna be ready to explore women. And enjoy them. They already desire you all the time; you're just oblivious to it. But that's down the road, let's stick to the present for now: all that I'm asking is that you meet the Count...
Vera:
[interrupting him] Set it up.
Ford:
[not believing his ears] Really?
 

Anne Rice  - Quotes

 Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You. 

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As You Like It  - Quotes

 Orlando De Boys:
I do desire we may be better strangers.
 

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Eric Hoffer  - Quotes

 Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion. 

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Louis Aragon  - Quotes

 As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body! 

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Georges Bataille  - Quotes

 To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing of a rooster or when strolling under a starry heaven. In general, people savor the  

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Robert Wells  - Quotes

 I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.

Another life is never safely envied.
 

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Al Pacino  - Quotes

 One hopes to find out about the [movie] you're in while you're doing it, not several years later, which is usually when I find out. I'm like, 'Wow, that was a dud! I didn't know, nobody would tell me!' I've done things for certain reasons, but it [comes from] thinking on your feet... Sometimes actors do things not because we have a great desire [for it], but because it's work, and I'm starting to wonder about that. 

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Dangerous Beauty  - Quotes

 Paola Franco:
Desire begins in the mind.
 

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Thich Nhat Hanh  - Quotes

 If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. 

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Dante Alighieri  - Quotes

 I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas,

how many yearning thoughts, what great desire,

have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
 

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