#sire

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. ↗

— Titus Livius

#fall #favor #honor #more #sometimes

The discipline of desire is the background of character. ↗

— John Locke

#character #desire #discipline

Our visions begin with our desires. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#desires #our #visions

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#become #cannot #desire #i #i am

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#desire #express #himself #his #lives

The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#baby #beyond #birth #both #bring

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#desire #fear #harder #infused #live

I had no desire to crash a man's world. ↗

— Ida Lupino

#desire #had #i #man #world

My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#because #consider #desire #despise #go