Desires

Examples

• Eunice desires nothing—except myself; but as for Mrs Dengelton, she thinks I am poor. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As for my father, his desires and exertions were bounded to the again seeing me restored to health and peace of mind. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• But his own desires are not abolished. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The servant took hold of me by the cloak behind, and said: Polemarchus desires you to wait. Plato. The Republic.
• The State is all-sufficing for the wants of man, and, like the idea of the Church in later ages, absorbs all other desires and affections. Plato. The Republic.
• Then if there be any city which may be described as master of its own pleasures and desires, and master of itself, ours may claim such a designation? Plato. The Republic.
• What he desires, should be in itself reasonable. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Love and hatred might have been unattended with any such desires, or their particular connexion might have been entirely reversed. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nay, said the Knight, an he have the gift of showing my road, I shall not grumble with him that he desires to make it pleasant. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Human beings have desires that are far more important than the tools and toys and churches they make to satisfy them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Then the soul of the thirsty one, in so far as he is thirsty, desires only drink; for this he yearns and tries to obtain it? Plato. The Republic.
• Precisely; that is what she expressly desires. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The big men from Machiavelli through Rousseau to Karl Marx brought history, logic, science and philosophy to prop up and strengthen their deepest desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the highest class, I replied,--among those goods which he who would be happy desires both for their own sake and for the sake of their results. Plato. The Republic.
• A new dream, which they reverently call Christian, has sprung from their desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the passion of their good intentions they have not hesitated to conceal facts, suppress thought, crush disturbing initiatives and apparently detrimental desires. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The same may be said of the passionate element:--the desires of the ambitious soul, as well as of the covetous, have an inferior satisfaction. Plato. The Republic.
• The lady is sure that Mr Twemlow will do her the kindness to see her, on being told that she particularly desires a short interview. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The world has been roused--for a time at least--to great dangers and great desires. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My mother desires her very best compliments and regards, and a thousand thanks, and says you really quite oppress her. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Envy and impotent desires are their prevailing passions. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• And is there any man in whom you will find more of this sort of misery than in the tyrannical man, who is in a fury of passions and desires? Plato. The Republic.
• The revolution which human nature desires to effect step by step in many ages is likely to be precipitated by him in a single year or life. Plato. The Republic.
• These people whom she had ridiculed and yet envied were glad to make a place for her in the charmed circle about which all her desires revolved. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mocking her own desires, she rallied her guests on their early departure. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And the royal and orderly desires are nearest? Plato. The Republic.
• I try not to have desires merely for myself, because they may not be good for others, and I have too much already. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He desires me to go to his chambers at dark. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Some responses are secured, but desires and affections not enlisted must find other outlets. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

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