#desire

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#desire #desperate #hostility #i #i can

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#alliance #avert #chamberlain #desires #england

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue? ↗

— Edgar Rice Burroghs

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#belongs #desire #everything #his #human

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way. ↗

— Rosa Parks

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A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ↗

— Petrarch

#desires #our #riches #short #short cut

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ↗

— Plato

#desire #emotion #flows #human #human behavior

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. ↗

— Jasper Johns

#desire #everything #give #good #including

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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