Mimetic Desire Quotes

#1. More and more, it seems to me, modern individualism assumes the form of a desperate denial of the fact that, through mimetic desire, each of us seeks to impose his will upon his fellow man, whom he

Rene Girard

#2. I hope you do exist. Even though hope is as intangible as belief, I am not hostile to it.

Craig Lancaster

#3. You can't pray the gay away.

Jessica Verdi

#4. Don't grow too old before you decide to live your life.

Andrea K. Robbins

#5. I heard what sounded like twenty rockets exploding nearby, because twenty rockets exploded nearby.

Steven Campbell

#6. A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Irwin Shaw

#7. If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn't want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn't get it, but in reality that really had no bearing on whether or not I got a part.

Amy Adams

#8. Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

John Wayne

#9. There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

John Quincy Adams

#10. Cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event

Harold Rosenberg