#desire

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father

I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #dreams

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#anything #before #broke #desire #exercise

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#first #great #great spirit #had #made

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom. ↗

— George W. Bush

#desire #every #every heart #freedom #god

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

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it. ↗

— Lord Byron

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Men freely believe that which they desire. ↗

— Julius Caesar

#desire #freely #men #which

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

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#decently #desire #die #live #manfully