The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Orson Pratt
HeartMeManifestDesireWillLord
My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.
Bruce Feiler
GoodStoryNameDesireFirstShape
I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
Randy Schekman
DesireUnderstandCellsDrivenHow
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.
Sigmar Gabriel
ChangeAngerIgnoreInjusticeDesire
I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.
Juliana Hatfield
MoneyMeRoadDesireFameGlory
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
Oliver Goldsmith
KnowledgeDesireBecomePossible
The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.
Aristotle
BeginningTrainDesireMoreNoble
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit.
Paul Rust
FunnyThinkDesireWantingThrow
Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
LovePeoplePersonDesireKnowGet
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
ExperienceStandMotivationDesire
Desire is individual. Happiness is common.
Julian Casablancas
HappinessDesireIndividualCommon
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
SuccessAchievementDesireStarting
I've never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I've never had a desire to work there.
Audrey Tautou
WorkRelationshipDesireHollywood
You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.
Nick Clegg
GoodYouPowerfulDesireGenuine
I really desire a partner.
Tom Sizemore
PartnerDesireReally
If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.
James Longstreet
ResponsibilityMeBlameHelpDesire
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Mahatma Gandhi
LifeStruggleWifeAmbitionDesire
There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field of the sky. Do they desire us as we desire them?
Alice Hastings Bradley
SkyYellowSunDesireUnknownOut
Noir was a brainchild of the United States. And most of the creators of classic noir - novelists and screenwriters, directors and cameramen - were men. Women were their mysterious, sometimes villainous, always seductive objects of desire.
Margo Jefferson
WomenMenDesireSometimesClassic
We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.
Rob Reiner
DesireAbilitySeeJokeGetBucket
It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.
Hu Shih
ChristianDesireTrueJapaneseEven
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Maggie Gallagher
LoveEyesRomanticInspireDesire
This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.
Allen Weinstein
FierceDoingMeaningHeritageDesire
I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.
Marcus Garvey
GoodPeopleBlackBackDesireWill
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