In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.
Minimalism had to be born, not out of a mere spur-of-the-moment idea or yearning for a new lifestyle, but from an earnest desire and fervent need to rethink our lives.
I've always had this incredible sense of urgency. I've always had this desire not to let things fester and to really seize the moment, because it's serendipity.
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
Socialism is a sacred cause for realizing the demand and desire of the masses of the people for independence; it is a revolutionary cause that advances amid a fierce struggle against imperialism and all other counterrevolutionary forces.
I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Men freely believe that which they desire.
It's inevitable that we'll have some form of designer children, fueled not just by the science but by parents' hard-wired desire to give their children every advantage.
I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.
In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing.
I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.
Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
