#desire

I don't have the recipe for happiness, but I think the engine is simply having the desire. ↗

— Vanessa Paradis

#engine #happiness #having #i #i think

Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#against #budgetary #care #desires #gop

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#disciplined #expression #films #follow #i

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. ↗

— John Rawls

#arbitrary power #bad #bad man #desires #evil

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 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

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#desires #distorting #evil #facts #forget