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"Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will."
Quote by -Desiderius Erasmus
"By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him."
Quote by -Desiderius Erasmus
"And so when the whole man will be outside himself, and happy for no reason except that he is so outside himself, he will enjoy some of the ineffable share in the supreme good which draws everything into itself."
Quote by -Desiderius Erasmus
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
Quote by -George Bernard Shaw
"Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words."
Quote by -Don DeLillo
"I want trade deals, but they have to be great for the United States and our workers. We don't make great deals anymore, but we will once I become president."
Quote by -Donald Trump
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
Quote by -E. B. White
"An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write."
Quote by -E. B. White
"Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk."
Quote by -Edgar Watson Howe
"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
Quote by -James A. Baldwin
"Everybody who had the desire to play prepared themselves for this tournament. Our guys saw enough pitches. They had enough at-bats. No excuses."
Quote by -Manny Acta
"I am worried about the health of our best starters, but they have the desire to play and that makes me happy."
Quote by -Manny Acta
"It's totally out of desire and totally out of belief that - not that I am essential, but that I am still a vibrant, wise human being with great dreams for the future, great hopes for the future, a great team to work with and a really great company to be involved with, ... I mean, this is my life."
Quote by -Martha Stewart
"I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him."
Quote by -George Muller
"If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened."
Quote by -George Muller
"In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray."
Quote by -George Muller
"America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people."
Quote by -George W. Bush
"If a person desires to understand clearly the sacred books and scriptural texts of India, to imbibe their message, he must learn the Sanskrit language; he cannot avoid that responsibility and that duty."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Every man desires to acquire Ananda. From where can Ananda be acquired ? Faith alone can win Ananda."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to."
Quote by -Gordon Brown
"Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal), one should start on the path of sacrifice."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"THE motherland is not a mere lump of earth. When we desire its progress, we have to promote the progress of the people who dwell therein."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Another point; you desire that I should come to your houses, you pray to Me to do so, you grieve when I do not come, you start reviling yourself that you are poorer than others, that you are spiritually underdeveloped perhaps, and so on. I have no place in My heart for such distinctions and differences."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Desire is the worst enemy; it ruins many a human life. Desire when fulfilled breeds further desire."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"I - Want ââ¬â Peace,àI is ego, Want is desire;àRemove ego and desire and you have peace."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Human desire is illimitable and without end. It makes you pursue the mirage in the desert; it makes you build castles in the air; it breeds discontent and despair, once you succumb to it."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun; it gets longer when you run to catch; it makes you a fool."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. Desire is the sole cause of sorrow and distress."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"Desire is storm, greed is whirlpool, pride is precipice, attachment is avalanche, ego is volcano. Discard desire and you are liberated."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"What you would desire others to do for you, you should do for others. You should respect others, as you want to be respected by them."
Quote by -Sathya Baba
"For us who are observers of ourselves there can never be a hidden desire or hidden motivation. If we are always observing ourselves nothing hidden can come in without being spotted, and nothing hidden can get done, because we (the master) are always there."
Quote by -Barry Long
"King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre."
Quote by -Rudyard Kipling
"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."
Quote by -Rudyard Kipling
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
Quote by -Langston Hughes
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes -- I already have everything that I really need.
Quote by -Dalai Lama