The reason is that for many years I have avoided reading anything whatsoever that approaches my own line of country, out of a somewhat fanatical desire to avoid the risk of unconscious imitation.
You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.
We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.
Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
Some of the most successful products are born from a personal need to solve a problem rather than a desire to turn a profit.
There must be other races out there, watching our tiny yellow sun glimmering in their unknown field of the sky. Do they desire us as we desire them?
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
With this first novel, I am just above the foothills, but I see the path to the top, and it is my desire to write compelling stories about everything that I find of interest.
Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.
I am single and without children. I'm actually one of those people who's just never had a great desire to have kids.
The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.
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.
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 have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
Hunting for malware requires highly specialized knowledge of the intricacies of the domain name system - the protocol that allows us to type email addresses and website names to initiate communication. DNS enables our words to set in motion a chain of connections between servers, which in turn delivers the results we desire.
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
Desire is important.
A woman's desire is either terrifying, or it's ignored.
By playing on people's desire to belong to groups, Facebook creates a new, inclusive society. After all, Facebook is not like Harvard College. Anyone with access to the Internet can sign up.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.
If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
We want to feel hyper-alive, and it's like, the more cartoonish and grotesque the level we can operate at, the better. It's like the world we live in has become quite safe in a lot of ways, and it has become harder to genuinely transgress. But the desire to transgress is a real feeling.
We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
