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" 14th- and 15th-century drawings are almost unheard-of - and as a result, they generate jealous desire among dealers and curators. Museums in particular value rarity and pedigree more than attractiveness. "
Peter Landesman
" A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. "
Karel Reisz
" According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. "
Allen Tate
" A certain kind of person in America loves to note that they're currently soldiering through the latest Pulitzer winner for history, in particular. It connotes a certain gravitas, a connectedness to the literary and intellectual scene that most upwardly mobile professionals in America still desire. "
Michelle Dean
" A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions. "
Christopher Lasch
" A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. "
Ayn Rand
" A crowd of persons came in as soon as my office was opened. Among them were several ladies who called to pay their respects. None who called had any business of more importance than an ardent desire to serve their country, provided they could be appointed to a good office. As I has none of these to dispose of, they were, of course, disappointed. "
James K. Polk
" Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up. "
Andrea Navedo
" A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry. "
Oliver Ellsworth
" A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. "
Ayn Rand
" A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. "
John Adams
" A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics. "
Nina Easton
" A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. "
Tacitus
" A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! "
Karl Kraus
" A free and prosperous Iraq will be a major blow to the terrorists and their desire to establish a safe haven in Iraq where they can plan and plot attacks. "
Scott McClellan
" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "
Gore Vidal
" A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
" A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. "
Jonathan Swift
" All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. "
Aristotle
" All I can say is that I have arrived with the desire to be a success at Barca, that I am hungry to win titles. "
Luis Suarez
" All men by nature desire knowledge. "
Aristotle
" All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection. "
Eric Metaxas
" All of us who desire the kingdom of God are, by the Lord's decree, under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism. "
Saint Basil
" All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. "
Daisaku Ikeda
" All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. "
Spiro T. Agnew
" All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away. "
Joan Chen
" All that spirits desire, spirits attain. "
Khalil Gibran
" All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously. "
Jeremy Davies
" Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression. "
Evelyn Waugh
" Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. "
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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