#desire

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#call #chicago #city #desire #i

Humans do not possess a single, focused will. In their hearts, they have countless bugs, buzzing in all directions. There are times when all these bugs pounce on the same food, but when they are focused on different desires, people take actions that can only be described as incoherent. ↗

— Kouhei Kadono

#life #will #food

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. ↗

— Michael Korda

#degree #desire #directly #directly proportional #face

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#desire #i #most #offered #play

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire! ↗

— Karl Kraus

#fine #fulfilling #heart #his #man

James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#desire #grew #guys #had #i

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s! ↗

— Lea Thompson

#brief period #desire #extreme #get #lasted

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#desire #less #likely #more #opportunity

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#arms race #cherished #desire #every #every nation

In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#center #change #characters #conflicts #defining