Pastoral Resources

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need.

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.