Pastoral Resources

I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy.

Faith is not a notion, but a real strong essential hunger, an attracting or magnetic desire of Christ, which as it proceeds from a seed of the divine nature in us, so it attracts and unites with its like.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.