Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
As far as fame, the everlasting fame thing. I used to think that was important for a writer... the desire to make your mark.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
God's desire is that we excel.
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
I have had no role whatsoever in relation to any investigation of Burisma, or any of its officers. I explicitly limited my role to focus on corporate governance best practices to facilitate Burisma's desire to expand globally.
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be part of a, to enjoy the subsidy they get from being part of the kingdom.
There is, in our nature, a disposition to indulgence, a secret desire to escape from labor, which, unless hourly combated, will overcome and destroy the best faculties of our minds and paralyze our most useful powers.
It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.
I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.
Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
'Intimate Apparel' is a lyrical meditation on one woman's loneliness and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.
It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
