Pastoral Resources

Have the courage of your desire.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.

Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.

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.

Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.