#desire

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#asked #child #dad #day #desire

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#bridge #bridges #conflict #contributing #creating

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. ↗

— John Yoo

#any #anything #berg #captured #civilian

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#burning desire #desire #fresh #had #i

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax. ↗

— Eva Green

#desire #difficult #entirely #ephemeral #makes

I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#desire #feel #i #i feel #more

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves. ↗

— William Gurnall

#desire #duty #only #others #our

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory. ↗

— Douglas Haig

#dangerous #defensive #desire #enemy #evade

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#concern #desire #every #every nation #extreme