#desire

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. ↗

— Chico Hamilton

#because #being #desire #i #luckily

As I get older, I'm slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you'll see me be quieter just so that people will listen. ↗

— Marvin Hamlisch

#calming #composer #desire #down #energy

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#contrary #course #desired #destiny #history

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers. ↗

— Ian Hart

#convention #dads #desire #drama #fathers

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#basic #believe #broad #desire #everyone

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#actress #any #desire #famous #how

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul. ↗

— Heraclitus

#buys #contend #cost #desire #hard

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#gratify #great #know #our #own

And if we are in this state, if we had an eternity of probation, what reason have we to suppose that we should profit by it - if we had ever so long a time to chose for ourselves we should pursue our own will, to gratify our carnal I desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#chose #desires #eternity #ever #gratify