Pastoral Resources

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.

I desire to assist in attracting to this profession young men of character and ability, also to help those already engaged in the profession to acquire the highest moral and intellectual training.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity of the American people should be reflected in this legislation, though sadly, they are silenced.