#sire

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#east #freedom #help #into #middle

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace. ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#determinism #free-will #knowledge #life #life

Himself an ugly man, insignificant of appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others. ↗

— Somerset Maugham

#beauty #comeliness #desires #uglyness #beauty

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#desire #even #how #kill #live

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

#always #another #country #desire #first

I had a strong desire to write and some free time. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#free #free time #had #i #some

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms #arms race #before #desire #get

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#decided #desire #had #i #stand-up

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ↗

— Rumi

#desire #every #every heart #everyone #heart

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desire #escape #far #greater #intercourse