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«Some guys they just give up living, others start dying little by little piece by piece, some guys come home from work and wash up, and go racing in the streets.»
Author: Bruce Springsteen
(Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Dedication,
Desire,
Devotion,
Dreams,
Heart,
Persistence,
Work
«Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.»
«The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.»
Author: Laurence Sterne
(Writer)
| About:
Desire,
Knowledge
| Keywords:
acquisition, thirst for knowledge
«Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.»
Author: Lawrence Block
| About:
Desire,
Destiny,
Needs
| Keywords:
looking for, look for, needs, serendipity, something else, suited
«The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.»
«The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.»
«Since in a net I seek to hold the wind.»
Author: Sir Thomas Wyatt
| About:
Desire
«There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. Secondly, we have what we may call the desire for reputation or prestige (defining it as respect or es»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Achievement,
Confidence,
Desire,
Fame,
Freedom,
Strength
| Keywords:
adequacy, defining, prestige, secondly
«The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Desire
| Keywords:
caused, charity, come into, excess, fallen angel, No Angel
«That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion»
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