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  • Don't badger people without children into admitting the secret desire for children you're sure they have to you! Don't badger anyone! Leave the badgering to the badgers.

    "Do It for the Kids". Live Chat, www.slate.com. December 21, 2015.
  • All of us have a secret desire to be seen as saints, heroes, martyrs. We are afraid to be children, to be ourselves.

    Children   Hero   Secret  
  • The starting point of all achievement is desire.

    Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin
  • Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

    Two   Effort   Meditation  
    "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.
  • Everyone has complexes about their body or their ability and skills and dream of a rebirth into something different. I myself have always had that secret desire to become something completely different and enact revenge on certain things. So I do that through my movies. My desires become reality in the movie because it can't become real in real life.

    Dream   Revenge   Real  
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  • For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

    July   Years   Secret  
    "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.
  • Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

    Agony   Icons   Space  
    Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.118, Penguin
  • If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."

    Inspire   Secret   Desire  
  • People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.

    "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook G", G 2), (1779-1783).
  • The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

    Gratitude   Men   Secret  
  • Often secret desires as well as abilities surface in our dreams.

    Dream   Secret   Desire  
    P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2010). “Hunted: A House of Night Novel”, p.222, Macmillan
  • In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

    J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK
  • Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.

    Ambition   Men   Secret  
  • Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

  • A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

  • We hide in relationships. We hide in material possessions. We hide in ambitions, secret desires, hates, frustrations, jealousy, self-ptiy, in our insecurity - and more than anything our vanity and our egotism.

    Karma   Hate   Yoga  
  • I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.

    "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.
  • When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.

    Writing   Secret   Desire  
  • I enjoyed acting growing up; I did musical theater. I had a secret desire to be a television and movie actress, but it wasn't something I admitted to myself that I wanted to do, I guess.

  • Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and uncomfortable. These are, to me, a part of the ordinary human condition. So I don't think I'm writing about abnormal things. ... Artists, in my experience, have very little center. They fake. They are not the real thing. They are spies. I am no exception.

    Real   Writing   Artist  
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