#desi

Desire is the very essence of man. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#essence #man #very

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficulty #govern #men #moderate #more

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#according #become #both #calls #child

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution. ↗

— George Edmund Street

#avoid #design #execution #material #most

Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride. ↗

— Janet Street-Porter

#ailment #designer #many #pride #so-called

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#cause #comrade #desires #difficult #easy

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology. ↗

— John Sununu

#address #ago #current #designed #evolved

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth. ↗

— Natalie Goldberg

#desire #never #never underestimate #people #truth

Evil turned out not to be a grand thing. Not sneering Emperors with world-conquering designs. Not cacklikng demons plotting in the darkness beyond the world. It was small men with their small acts and their small reasons. It was selfishness and carelessness and waste. It was bad luck, incompetence and stupidity. It was violence divorced from conscience or consequence. It was high ideals, even, and low methods. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#design

I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#goal #huge #i #missed #out