#desire

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me. ↗

— Nicole Kidman

#desire #even #had #i #loss

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#desire #disappointment #dream #handle #how

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#commitment #desire #disarmament #entered #expressed

First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy. ↗

— Mikhail Saakashvili

#based #desire #first #foremost #georgia

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#bred #competition #desire #doubt #foremost

Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ↗

— Sallust

#few #few men #just #liberty #master

I'm finding, as I get older, that I'm not much of a believer in redemption. I mean, I believe in redemption in real life - redemption does happen, and it's cool when it does - but I find myself getting leery of my desire for it in stories (especially my own). ↗

— George Saunders

#believer #cool #desire #does #especially

The mind is a machine that is constantly asking: What would I prefer? Close your eyes, refuse to move, and watch what your mind does. What it does is become discontent with that-which-is. A desire arises, you satisfy that desire, and another arises in its place. ↗

— George Saunders

#arises #asking #become #close #constantly

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' ↗

— George Saunders

#desire #ego #feeling #get #good