#desi

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#conceit #decent #desire #earn #far

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

#because #become #came #desire #i

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#enjoys #happy #himself #man #never

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#desirable #guy #i #like #me

We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

#anxieties #build #capable #desires #doing

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bad time #better #bit #design #fashion

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#desire #greatest #heart #his #lord

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look. ↗

— Emily Procter

#always #careful #clothes #could #deserve

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#changes #changing #desire #gradually #our