#desires

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

#companies #desires #everyone #expect #genes

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#desires #especially #female #had #her

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#desires #economics #first #insatiable #macs

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me. ↗

— Jane Grey

#although #attention #attentions #death #desires

He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up with mythologies to do with flight—a desire for the magic of the sky, for something bigger than their feet treading the earth. ↗

— Maud Casey

#gods #mythology #understanding #age

The first rule of being a mercenary? Find out what the client wants, then convince him that, a) you can get it for him, and, b) you're the ONLY one who can get it for him. Second rule? Lie. Often. The truth rarely serves you well in this business -Cadeon Woede, mercenary, second in line to the throne of the rage demons, a.k.a. Cade the Kingmaker ↗

— Kresley Cole

#dark-desires-after-dusk #holly #iad #intro-quotes #kresley-cole

Desires are like season, They change with time with no reason, Cherish your present and make it special every moment ↗

— GopsOctavE

#reality #truth #change

... that most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else. ↗

— Victor LaValle

#dreams