#desire

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#federal #federal government #government #just #limited

I think that people, despite my law enforcement background, view me as taking these consistently progressive stands, and I think that, philosophically, there is a desire to get at that person. But I think the stands I have taken are totally consistent with a person who is looking at things realistically, factually. ↗

— Eric Holder

#consistent #consistently #desire #despite #enforcement

Give me the strongest cheese, the one that stinks best; and I want the good wine, the swirl in crystal surrendering the bruised scent of blackberries, or cherries, the rich spurt in the back of the throat, the holding it there before swallowing. Give me the lover who yanks open the door of his house and presses me to the wall in the dim hallway, and keeps me there until I’m drenched and shaking, whose kisses arrive by the boatload and begin their delicious diaspora through the cities and small towns of my body. To hell with the saints, with martyrs of my childhood meant to instruct me in the power of endurance and faith, to hell with the next world and its pallid angels swooning and sighing like Victorian girls. I want this world. I want to walk into the ocean and feel it trying to drag me along like I’m nothing but a broken bit of scratched glass, and I want to resist it. I want to go staggering and flailing my way through the bars and back rooms, through the gleaming hotels and weedy lots of abandoned sunflowers and the parks where dogs are let off their leashes in spite of the signs, where they sniff each other and roll together in the grass, I want to lie down somewhere and suffer for love until it nearly kills me, and then I want to get up again and put on that little black dress and wait for you, yes you, to come over here and get down on your knees and tell me just how fucking good I look. - “For Desire ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#faith

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. ↗

— Epictetus

#desire #desired #enjoyment #freedom #full

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires. ↗

— H. Stanley Judd

#directed #inner #life #live #longer

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally. ↗

— Richard Krajicek

#difficult #had #highest #highest level #level

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world - the United Nations - lash him, brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate their desire to destroy him. ↗

— Meir Kahane

#brand #demonstrate #desire #destroy #evil

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#because #been #company #demands #desire

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#back #becoming #body #breeding #bringing