Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.
Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Our visions begin with our desires.
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.
To manifest your hearts desires you must be what your heart desires.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.
Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, 'I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior's power to bless others.'
However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.
Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
American politicians are responsive almost solely to the interests and desires of their rich constituents and interest groups that primarily represent big business.
As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young people, especially low income and poor minorities, and shapes their desires and identities in the service of military values and social relations.
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
People who think they are free eventually end up slaves to their own desires, and those who give their freedom away to the only One you can trust with that freedom eventually get it back.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
I do think that narrative, long-form nonfiction is the perfect form because it's rooted in something very real, but we're also, you know, completely spiritual, emotional creatures driven by all sorts of desires and needs.
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.
People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.
I don't have a lot of desires, you see; I feel so lucky. God has give me a lot of things already; there's nothing to ask for.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
