#desire

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#live performance #many #outlive #performance #should

The three main sources of scepticism are first, that not every people desires freedom; second, that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous; and third, that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries. ↗

— Natan Sharansky

#certain #countries #dangerous #democracies #democracy

To our Palestinian neighbours, I assure you that we have a genuine intention to respect your right to live independently and in dignity. I have already said that Israel has no desire to continue to govern over you and control your fate. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#assure #continue #control #desire #dignity

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality. ↗

— Ariel Sharon

#bear #democracy #desire #different #disengagement

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval. ↗

— William Shatner

#approval #desire #i #i think #need

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #get #heart #life #other

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #expression #horizontal #perpendicular

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star. ↗

— Ally Sheedy

#ambition #desire #i #star #work

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus