#sir

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#beloved #desire #god #heart #humble

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#being #desire #duplication #earth #even

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family. ↗

— Zachary Quinto

#desire #family #friends #friends and family #manifested

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#denied #desire #forbidden #long #things

Agatha loved military men. Actually, she loved men in uniform. And my bowling league outfit used to drive her wild with desire. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #military #uniform #funny

I hadn't even watched '24' before, and the audition was kind of far away. When I got the material, there wasn't a character yet, so it almost seemed like an assistant to Jack Bauer saying, 'Yes, sir. No, sir.' ↗

— Mary Lynn Rajskub

#assistant #audition #away #before #character

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieve #beat #creative #creative man #desire

Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#ever #force #good #motive #motives

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#certain #desires #dictatorship #does #ego

A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience. ↗

— Karel Reisz

#big #conformity #desire #element #regard