#sir

I inherited a pound from my British uncle. I’d have rather gotten a dollar, because what do I want with an animal shelter?
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— Jarod Kintz

#animal-shelter #british #death #desire #die

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#duty #eternity #laugh #others #rejoice

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. ↗

— Coventry Patmore

#fulfilling #god #incredible #more #prompt

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#desires #flourished #good #held #humanity

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be. ↗

— Charles Pierce

#desire #even #find #intelligent #may

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. ↗

— Plutarch

#belongs #desirable #glory #indeed #our

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen. ↗

— Annette Curtis Klause

#love #reasons-why #life

Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#entered #extraordinary #great #his #into

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#achieving #action #desire #goal #possibility

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#alone #any #bestow #country #desire