I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
I met an agent through my modeling agency who encouraged me to go out and audition for sitcoms, and I was absolutely petrified because I had no desire to do it.
No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.
Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
At the core of the Magnolia brand is the desire to make homes beautiful but with a focus on family and practicality. We want to create spaces that families want to gather in.
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Bob Gates has unusual standing in the debate about the Obama administration's foreign policy: He was defense secretary for both a hawkish President George W. Bush and a wary President Obama. He understood Bush's desire to project power and Obama's skepticism.
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
In history, psychedelic plants were used by priests and shamans with a desire to discover the interior.
I have no desire to run for public office.
I became interested, through reading the works of some novelist, in Egyptology and made a study of the pyramids. It was just a hobby, but I had a desire to know all I could about everything I could.
