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I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express

I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

It's nothing serious, " he said. "It's just an obsession.

It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies.

Was it fate? Was it destiny?" "I think it was Alan Blunt.

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.

Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen."

The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It's very vague. What does that mean, 'outrages upon human dignity'?

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.

I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.