#sire

Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. ↗

— James Welch

#also #anyone #become #bit #could

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. ↗

— Fay Weldon

#desire #feel #getting #outside #people

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. ↗

— E. B. White

#arise #between #day #desire #enjoy

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. ↗

— George Whitefield

#angels #christ #desire #fall #first

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#i #me #meet #passing #should

I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to. ↗

— William Wiley

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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#attention #desire #feel #give #i

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#desire #history #passion #same #science

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired. ↗

— William Griffith Wilson

#anyone #convince #desire #faith #only