Desired Quotes

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

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

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.

The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.