Pastoral Resources

In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

If you make a treaty first with the United States and settle the matter of the opium trade, England cannot change this, though she should desire to do so.

Desire creates its own object.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.