#desires

I must be getting back to my rooms,” Silence said and stood. Mick frowned with displeasure. “Why?” “Because of Mary Darling.” He shrugged. “One o’ the maids is watchin’ her.” “But if Mary wakes she’ll want me.” “Why?” he asked again, biting into a sweetmeat. This discussion wasn’t to his fancy, but sparring with her was. “Because,” she said slowly, looking at him as if he were lack-witted, “she’s only a baby and she loves me.” “Babies,” Mick pronounced, “are a great trouble.” She shook her head, not bothering to reply this time, and started marching to the door. ↗

— Elizabeth Hoyt

#mickey #scandalous-desires #silence #love

A heart anchored in money will only drift away. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#drift #money #possessions #money

If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart ↗

— Deborah N. Kabwang

#faith #fear #trust #faith

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him. ↗

— Xun Zi

#animal #believe #boasts #conducts #deception

A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned. ↗

— Xun Zi

#any #beautiful #born #desires #ears

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#desires #enabling #fulfills #god #heart

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action pictures #desires #feed #go #into

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

#endeavor #excel #excellent #most #should

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart