#desires

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

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

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. ↗

— Socrates

#deadliest #deepest #desires #hate #often

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. ↗

— Robert South

#desires #enlarges #folly #lessens #men

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#become #captive #desires #discipline #find

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ↗

— John Ruskin

#child #desires #disgraced #dislikes #education

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#indignation #our #submission #thoughts

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

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation