#sir

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#fulfillment #increases #postponed

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#failure #happen #increases #kill #make

An aspirational diet will have you dreaming of success; but it’s the attachment of expectations and tangible goals that feeds the desire, persistence, and fortitude required to make the win. ↗

— Lorii Myers

#desire #expectations #fortitude #goals #golf

When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money. ↗

— Imogen Cunningham

#money #portraits #professionally #you

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#death #death penalty #desire #driving #father

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#considerable #country #day #debate #early

You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#awakened #constitution #conventions #debates #know

I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor. ↗

— Charles Dance

#i #number #phoned #please #said

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#between #canada #country #desire #extraordinary

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#desire #list #lose #new #pounds