#desires

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#books #desires #pictures #shaped #thought

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. ↗

— Carl Paladino

#albany #angry #attention #cesspool #conflicts

When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth. ↗

— Paracelsus

#desires #earth #establishes #flows #greater

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#disciplined #expression #films #follow #i

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. ↗

— John Rawls

#arbitrary power #bad #bad man #desires #evil

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

#him #peace #prepare #war #who

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#determinism #free-will #knowledge #life #life

Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others. ↗

— Somerset Maugham

#beauty #comeliness #desires #uglyness #beauty

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desires #distorting #evil #facts #forget