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Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.
Mitchell Zuckoff

Money, Easy, Common

I would have to say the novel 'War and Peace' influenced me more than any other book. This greatest of novels demonstrated to me the enormous power of literature and fired me up with a desire to become a writer, to participate in what I considered then to be the greatest of all endeavors.
Douglas Preston

Peace, Power, War

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
John McDonald

Power, Force, Intensity

As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
George Benson

Change, Career, Playing

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
Orlando Jones

Character, Real, Hero

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara Cook

Thought, Quitting, Absolutely

The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
Albert Barnes

God, Human, Give

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney

School, Keep, Speak

I just don't think I've had the desire yet to write a vicious animal - like a dog-gone-bad or anything - where I do feel that I need a balance of all types of humans.
Sara Gruen

Write, Balance, Animal

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire.
Adela Florence Nicolson

Often, Virtue, Devotion

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Leslie Easterbrook

Great, Play, Acting

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser

Education, Career, Secret

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
Im Dong-Hyun

Time, Strong, Become

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
Catherine McAuley

Thought, Rather, Though

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.
Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
Richard Courant

Mind, Human, Reason

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.
Guy Johnson

Great, Writer, Achieve

With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
Guy Johnson

Everything, Find, Path

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.
Liu Xiaobo

Culture, Order, Flaws

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
Andrew Taylor Still

Cat, Lightly, Creates

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.
Joshua A. Norton

War, Here, Surrender

We all know about love, faith, sadness, despair, hope, hopelessness, longing, desire... those are things we all have inside of us, and that's what my songs are about... what it means to be a human being.
Ron Pope

Love, Faith, Hope

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
William Griffith Wilson

Faith, Anyone, Convince

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.
John Cassavetes

Old, Keep, Creative

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
Thomas Clarkson

Government, Mankind, Necessity

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Meagan Good

Sure, Fame, Celebrity

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
Terry Savage

Politics, Money, Government

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
Howard Aiken

Time, Science, Human

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.
James Coburn

Acting, Whole, Took

When I moved to Chicago, I was coming from a school that didn't have any arts in Alabama. I essentially came from a town where the arts didn't exist and the desire for education didn't exist and wasn't valued.
Nelsan Ellis

Education, School, Coming

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