#desi

I don't like the designated hitter. A guy who plays should be able to catch and hit. ↗

— Marge Schott

#catch #designated #guy #hit #hitter

The time when I had desire to go to the United States I didn't have a penny. It was in the middle of the depression, you know. I couldn't get as far as Hoboken at that time. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#depression #desire #far #get #go

That's the beauty and mystery of life. You have to let it unfold on its own. If you are too rigid about how you want it to play out, you kill the essence of it. ↗

— Laxmi Hichkad

#beauty

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting. ↗

— Nate Silver

#clutch #desire #heart #hitting #importance

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#architecture #cosplay #design #japan #manga

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. ↗

— Sivananda

#arises #between #calm #comes #complete

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience. ↗

— Curt Siodmak

#desired #experience #man #more #often

There isn't a wife in the world who has not taken the exact measure of her husband, weighed him and settled him in her own mind, and knows him as well as if she had ordered him after designs and specifications of her own. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#designs #exact #exact measure #had #her

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

Not only the Archivist alone but all who work for NARA are designated custodians of America's national memory. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#america #archivist #custodians #designated #memory