#desire

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#correct #deal #desire #everybody #get

We who are like senseless children shrink from suffering, but love its causes. We hurt ourselves; our pain is self-inflicted! Why should others be the object of our anger? ↗

— Śāntideva

#buddhism #desire #suffering #anger

Whenever I see a gorgeous woman, I think, Who is that tall drink of water, and how come I’m suddenly thirsty?
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— Jarod Kintz

#horny #lust #need #sexy #tall

And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey. ↗

— Russell Banks

#clever #desire #essentially #i #imitate

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb. ↗

— Siobhan Davies

#as far as #audience #bricks #built #dance

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. ↗

— William Blake

#breeds #delight #desires #energy #eternal

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. ↗

— William Blake

#desires #enough #restrain #restrained #their

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#challenges #comes #desire #doing #great

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#does #getting #going #invades #invasion

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#any #desire #every #had #i