Pastoral Resources

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

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.

I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.

I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.

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.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

What we have is two important values in conflict: freedom of speech and our desire for healthy campaigns in a healthy democracy. You can't have both.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.