All of us, believers and non-believers, desire some kind of fellowship and connection.
The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
Many of our constituents have one option for cable TV and one price. Our constituents desire choice.
Either you write songs or you don’t. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there’s a natural desire to want to make records.
The best partnerships aren’t dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can’t get into our schools, that’s wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States’ apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.
Great entrepreneurial DNA is comprised of leadership, technological vision, frugality, and the desire to succeed.
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that attack force.
Conformity is painful. You know, it’s too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.
I totally reject and have rejected throughout my entire career the proposition that the end justifies the means or that a judge should decide cases based on a desire to reach a certain outcome.
My desire is to walk with God every day.
Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
I returned to India after long years of international service, because I had always cherished the desire to make a difference in my own country.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.
If you aren’t humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance.
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.
The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.’s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.
Duty – that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
I do believe there are things that we desire that are not in the cards. But more often than not, when people have a desire for a relationship and it’s not happening, there are probably issues to be resolved and issues people could work on that would ultimately end in that desire being fulfilled.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as the environment will allow it. We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.
What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances – its own or others’ – but ‘economic dynamism’: the desire and the space to innovate.
Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.
I’ve often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.
When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
The biggest obstacle to good gardening is the desire to know the answers and not the questions.
I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time – putting the two together.
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
I didn’t get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.
You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.
Our opponents maintain that we are confronted with insurmountable political obstacles, but that may be said of the smallest obstacle if one has no desire to surmount it.
Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in.
My choice of learning pharmacy was driven by my interests, curiosity, and a desire to seek new medicines for patients.
The point of vision and desire are the same.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you’re keeping the man-child alive.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada’s war effort as effective as possible.
I’ve always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse – as a luxury befitting a young man.
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
I’ve never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we’re probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
