#desire

My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it. ↗

— William Kidd

#desire #i #indictment #law #lord

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball. ↗

— Roger Maris

#american league #back #ballpark #baseball #day

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise. ↗

— Catherine McAuley

#desire #foundations #gone #increase #join

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman. ↗

— Mencius

#artist #bids #desire #forbids #him

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#become #desires #dreams #first #had

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#love #reasons-why #life

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieving #action #desire #goal #possibility

But the thing which had made him fall for her, fall properly, was the way she seemed so calm and so quiet and so sad. Surrounded by noisy bankers showing off, and their variously pushy or beady or anxious or competitive wives, she seemed to be from somewhere else; a place where people carried their own burdens; a grander and realer and more honourable place. Roger didn't know that Matya spent a lot of that evening thinking about home, but he could tell that she was thinking about something, and it was that other thing which, for him, did it. ↗

— John Lanchester

#crushes #desire #fancy #home #love