#desire

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ↗

— Sallust

#few #few men #just #liberty #master

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#anything #deliver #desires #i #i am

This is why it's good manners to give gifts in wrappers: so that, for a moment, that beast in all of us that makes us feel alive and keeps us from becoming angels can be satisfied. While a gift is in a wrapper, it can be anything, even that one indescribable thing that will make us happy enough to die in peace. ↗

— Dexter Palmer

#dreams

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #finds #found #know #most

I think in our time, you know, so much of the information we get is pre-polarized. Fiction has a way of reminding us that we actually are very similar in our emotions and our neurology and our desires and our fears, so I think it's a nice way to neutralize that polarization. ↗

— George Saunders

#desires #emotions #fears #fiction #get

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#anything #because #between #conflict #desire

As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#as far as #bored #desire #far #get

My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#desire #i #live #loving #music

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#desired #hurts #lover #pinch #stroke

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#live performance #many #outlive #performance #should