“Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.” LongDoeProblemGovernmentDesireChoicesSocialTermSecurityDemandTaxesToughSpendingBudgetsLong TermEfficientSocial SecurityEntitlementAccountingMedicareSave MeDeceptiveGimmicksTough Choices Author:Reince Priebus
“Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.” KnowsGivingLongFeelingsDesireValuesTermHurtEmotionOpinionDogMoodLong TermDeep ThoughtHurt FeelingsVery Deep Author:Garth Stein
“Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.” DesireCoursesTermResultsLongingUrgesPlasticUnpredictablePresentationIndefinable Author:Lawren Harris
“All men desire their own perfect adjustment, but they desire it, being finite men, on their own terms.” MenDesireTermPerfectFiniteAdjustment Book:The Phantom Public Source: The Phantom Public
“Sometimes pantheists will use the term "pandeism" to underscore that they share with the deists the idea that God is not a personal God who desires to be worshipped.” IdeasSometimesUseDesireTermShareDeist Author:John Armstrong
“There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another.” PeopleIfsShouldReasonDesireTermSeriousBrotherPermanentReason WhyNo Reason Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“What does purpose mean? It means the deepest desire for our short lives to mean something. . . . To speak a language of purpose is to return to first principles and to be able to answer, in plain English, the plain questions of Why? Why should we chip in to help someone else? Why should we defer gratification? Why should we care about the long term? Why should we trust anyone who seems to be limiting our ability to do what we want?” WantShouldFirstsMeanLongDoeHelpingSeemsCareAbleDesirePurposeSpeakLanguageTermAbilityAnswersPrinciplesReturnIntentionLong TermChipsGratificationShort LifePlain English Author:Eric Liu
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader.” MayFactsDesireLiteratureTermCommunicationReaderTasksFundamentalsImpressionRebellionNeverthelessObscure Author:Georges Bataille
“Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.” FeelsFeelingsLife IsDesireTermMy OwnVisionTreeRocksIdentityLosingStonesDirtInterconnected Author:Bill Viola
“The secret to desire in a long-term relationship” LongDesireTermSecretLong TermLong Term Relationship Author:Esther Perel