We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
I have no deep desire to hit the pavement and audition for TV projects or raise money to produce a show.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Certain gifts God makes to the human soul without its asking or desiring; but there are other gifts which the grown-up soul, with the use of reason, can only have by its desire.
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
My belief is that if there are already games that other developers are putting out that are satisfying to the player, with great action or an excellent story, then I desire to create something different - a different type of experience.
I've always thought of the project as a sort of sexually driven digestive system, that it was a consumer and a producer of matter. And it is desire driven, rather than driven by hunger or anything like that.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.
I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.
Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.
