#desire

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again. ↗

— Nora Ephron

#almost #basic #believe #desire #equally

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#aims #belief #desires #goals #inspirational

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#keep #movement #part #pressing #western

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#beating #becomes #contented #day #deeds

Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need. ↗

— James Buchan

#competitive #conspicuous #consumption #creates #desires

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#bush #bush administration #desire #does #islam

With European powers no new subjects of difficulty have arisen, and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavorable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#arisen #aspect #been #cultivate #desire

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#aspect #create #creatively #desire #destroy

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. ↗

— Amir Butler

#complete #desire #doubt #freedom #however

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ↗

— Chanakya

#desires #divine #heart #mind #needed