#desire

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#death #desire #general #i #inclination

Desire creates the power. ↗

— Raymond Holliwell

#desire #power

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#bored #burning #burning desire #desire #enough

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#many #more #people #talk #their

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#believe #desire #engaged #fundamentally #genuine

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#contain #desires #examined #our #reveal

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#desires #destroy #destruction #ends #entrusts

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#commonwealth #consider #day #desire #fulfilled

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure