“Getting ahead in a difficult profession - singing, acting, writing, whatever requires avid faith in yourself. You must be able to sustain yourself against staggering blows and unfair reversals. When I think back to those first couple of years in Rome, those endless rejections, without a glimmer of encouragement from anyone, all those failed screen tests, and yet I never let my desire slide away from me, my belief in myself and what I felt I could achieve.” ThinkingWritingYearsFirstsAbleDesireBeliefFeltDifficultActingAchieveCoupleSingingTestsEncouragementBlowProfessionScreensEndlessRejectionRomeUnfairSlidesFaith In YourselfStaggeringAvidReversal Author:Sophia Loren
“It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.” WantDesirePleasureTestsObsessedEnjoymentFutility Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor.” MenWayShouldDoeCountryMatterWisdomDesirePoliticsLibertyOpinionEconomyPrideCitizensDemandTestsClaimsNeighborTreatedLiberalismMinoritiesGood Citizen Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?” IfsHeartRunningDesireOrderSexHoursCryMy HeartBedCatTestsSensualityTortureEnduranceCriedCavesAccumulationDoveAngelicHoundsHavocMenagerie Author:Elizabeth Smart
“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.” IfsDesireTurnsDifferencesPartyMassWeaknessTasksTestsInstitutionsRevolutionaryRegimesSubmitParliamentAnarchistParliamentaryBoycott Book:History of the Russian Revolution Source: History of the Russian Revolution
“I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.” DoeArtDesireUnderstandingOpinionStudyTestsAppreciationInsight Author:Laurance Rockefeller
“There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly to test those around him by tiresome behavior; what he says and does must be admired, not because it is intrinsically admirable, but because it is his remark, his act. Does not this explain a good deal of avant-garde art?” KindPersonsDoeArtDesireCertainDealsBehaviorTestsRemarksAdmirableAvant GardeTiresomeAvant Garde Art Author:W. H. Auden