“I am an opponent of Saddam Hussein, but an opponent also, of the sanctions that have killed a million Iraqi children and an opponent of the United States' apparent desire to plunge the Middle East into a new and devastating war.” ChildrenWarStatesDesireUnitedMillionsUnited StatesMiddleEastOpponentsMiddle EastSaddamHusseinSanctionsPlunge Author:George Galloway
“The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.” FirstsStatesDesireUnitedUnited StatesConditionsAmbitionOriginalsAimPropertySeekingStrikesPursueReputationAcquireMidstYearningAmbitiousMultitudesTravelerLoftyMagnitudeRarity Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.” PeopleThinkingWantKindDesirePassionUnited StatesViolenceAchievePassionateCharacteristicsSubstitutesDesire To AchievePassionate Desire Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey
“When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.” StatesAmericaDesireUnitedEnemyUnited StatesPercentStrikesUnited States Of AmericaHomeland Author:George W. Bush
“Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.” ShouldDesireUnited StatesNovelMedicalNovelistsDictionaryNeurosisMegalomania Author:Francine du Plessix Gray
“I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on” IfsThinkingWorldDifferentStatesWholeSchoolSpiritDesireMotivationUnitedUnited StatesLearningWonderfulDevelopmentMembersVery GoodExcellentProportionDifferent ThingsTechnologicalGood SensePlaces In The WorldGood PlaceLogical ThinkingMitWonderful PlacesTechnological Development Author:Richard P. Feynman
“The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge that the Senate of the United States might possibly improve its manners. Perhaps in our desire for simplicity, absence of title, or badge of office we may have thrown over too much.” MayMadeStatesGovernmentMightDesireHouseUnitedRoomsLordUnited StatesToo MuchSceneQuietOfficeDignitySimplicityArchitectureAbsenceMannersTitlesAcknowledgeThrownSenateMagnificentReposeBadgesHouse Of Lords Author:M. E. W. Sherwood