#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

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#day #depends #desire #fame #going

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

Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should import everything we can use or sell, in order that we may employ our unemployed hands, in making the goods by which we pay for these imports. ↗

— Joseph Hume

#course #desire #employ #end #everything

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#punishment #unrequited-love #love

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. ↗

— Dan Brown

#fear #human-nature #men

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged