#sire

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #dreams

It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents. ↗

— Laura Dern

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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. ↗

— John Dewey

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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#desire #fact #in fact #product #said

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

#desire #gift #increasing #internet #invented

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action pictures #desires #feed #go #into

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." ↗

— T. S. Eliot

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