Pastoral Resources

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

My desire is to walk with God every day.