#des

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like. ↗

— George Carlin

#deserted #know #like #looks #never

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#achieve #achievement #course #desires #develop

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#anything #deliberately #deserve #does #length

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#decently #desire #die #live #manfully

There is little doubt that Iran is on a mission to rebuild its nuclear weapons and use that capability to wreak havoc and destruction on Israel and others throughout the world. ↗

— Russ Carnahan

#destruction #doubt #havoc #iran #israel

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#also #always #birth #cloudy #consciences

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#approval #comedians #desperately #disorder #job

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#animalistic #any #back #because #catholic

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. ↗

— John le Carre

#because #been #books #decisions #else

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see. ↗

— Julian Clary

#attractive #become #conquer #desire #everyone