#desire

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. ↗

— George W. Bush

#book #country #criticize #desire #emerge

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#desire #help #show #themselves #those

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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#decently #desire #die #live #manfully

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt. ↗

— William Vickrey

#accumulate #assets #debt #desire #government

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. ↗

— Bobby Unser

#born #career #desire #education #every

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#being #between #boy #conflict #desire

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#man #other #rarely #than #woman

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary