#sir

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. ↗

— Epicurus

#did #far #i #knew #learn

The desire to write grows with writing. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#grows #write #writing

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#confidence #democratic #democratization #desire #exists

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#basically #conventional #culture #democracy #desirable

I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#home #i #sir #stairs #up

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#go #go for it #heart #please #whatever

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#aims #belief #desires #goals #inspirational

If Sir John A. MacDonald or any other leader of that day were here now, he would have a different program from that of sixty years ago. He sought to give his people policies suited to the time in which he lived. ↗

— John Bracken

#any #day #different #give #here

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#admire #desiring #secret #without

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person. ↗

— Eric Braeden

#being #being in love #children #desires #feeling