#desire

We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries. ↗

— Townsend Harris

#country #desires #different #japan #other

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

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#desire #fact #in fact #product #said

The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped. ↗

— John Doolittle

#desire #gift #increasing #internet #invented

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#action pictures #desires #feed #go #into

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#amount #appalled #become #blunted #desire

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun. ↗

— Tiger Woods

#asked #child #dad #day #desire

My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me. ↗

— John Woolman

#before #broken #dangers #desires #earnestness

One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#bridge #bridges #conflict #contributing #creating

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. ↗

— John Yoo

#any #anything #berg #captured #civilian