#sir

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there. ↗

— James Longstreet

#blame #cause #desire #go #help

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#desirability #i #i believe #i believe in #optimal

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature. ↗

— Anna Sui

#further #goes #human #human nature #instant

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

#desirable #directly #human #indirectly #reckoned

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. ↗

— Howard Aiken

#arithmetical #computations #desire #economize #effort

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set. ↗

— Patrick McHenry

#desires #issue #old #our #people

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#allowed #between #capital #commerce #countries

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #both #decided #desirable #experience

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#deal #done #great #great deal #john

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film. ↗

— Abraham Zapruder

#film #i #process #processing #room