Free nations with different histories, economies and a vast amount of stubborn pride will never achieve complete agreement, even when they desire the... →
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
Jonathan Swift
People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be... →
Omar Sy
I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And... →
Jack W. Szostak
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Tacitus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
William Howard Taft
I think if I ever stopped pushing myself, I would revert quickly to quite repetitive, restrictive behaviour. But in pushing myself and concentrating... →
Daniel Tammet
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... →
Allen Tate