Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.
I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that's always existed.
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
We covet experience; we have a secret desire to learn, not from cold prohibition, but from trial, whether those things, which are not without a semblance of good, are really so ill as they are described to us.
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
