#sir

I have no desire to coach basketball. ↗

— Kevin Johnson

#coach #desire #i

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#be happy #desire #end #enterprise #every

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#find #intellectual #leave #life #london

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#advances #alone #constant #does #find

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#capital #contrived #enjoy #good #happiness

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#attain #creature #great #great art #happiness

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#desire #goals #hard #hard work #hope

God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#desires #equally #gifts #god #his

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#ever #reason #strong #tamed

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#christians #conspicuous #desire #discriminate #distinctions