#desire

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ↗

— Angela Davis

#arise #between #certain #contributions #current

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. ↗

— Norman Douglas

#dying #living #sublimity #things #those

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#been #desires #enthusiastic #great #great men

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#be true #between #desire #founded #free

The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire. ↗

— Ashton Eaton

#definitely #desire #few #few people #innate

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#desire #filmmaking #get #i #need

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#desires #fact #falls #illusion #instinctual

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #also #anger #appeal #being

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#away #cycles #desire #fame #how

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies