#desire

If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#few #many #seem #things #will

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#easier #first #follow #much #satisfy

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#almost #also #anger #appeal #being

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#away #cycles #desire #fame #how

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again. ↗

— Mario Lemieux

#back #come #desire #game #i

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#every #live #long #old #would

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#century #certain #decade #desires #done

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#greater #impediment #place #progress #quickly

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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