#desire

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling. ↗

— Thomas Clarkson

#desire #first #government #had #mankind

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires. ↗

— John Cleese

#desires #get #i #just #just one

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs. ↗

— James Coburn

#because #complete #desire #direct #first

Adrian's tone suggested that the desire for something was all it took. They all live with endless possibilities, leave their homes for the sake of something new. But the dream is woven from the fabric of freedom. For desire to exist it requires the element of possibility, and that for Kai has never existed, until now... ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#dreams #hope #possibility #dreams

The 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

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#desire #failure #fear #greater #order

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

#desire #fight #marked #terrorism #were

It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#children #consequently #desire #gathered #god

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#desire #equity #excess #lead #must