#sire

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#dare #desired #freedom #freedom from #many

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged. ↗

— Spiro T. Agnew

#along #avenues #clear #desire #encouraged

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

#cold #coldness #degrees #desire #desires

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

The fiery force is nothing more than the life force as we know it. It is the flame of desire and love, of sex and beauty, of pleasure and joy as we consume and are consumed, as we burn with pleasure and burn out in time. ↗

— Harold Norse

#joy #life #love #passion #pleasure

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#desires #duty #our #powers #useful

You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#change #desires #different #dynamic #life

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#because #coincides #desires #distrust #god

Wonder is the desire for knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#knowledge #wonder