“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
“On a serious level, I wouldnt tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldnt ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.” IfsDesireCertainLevelsSeriousPressesLove Life Author:Kit Harington
“Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to.” WantShouldSelfMomentsLastsDesirePracticeImpossibleSeriousPreparedBowsBe PreparedWant USelf CenteredTrue Nature Book:Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.” WorldFirstsHas BeensWarCareMotherDesireChoicesFatherStudyAdviceSeriousPleaseAll ThingsMy FamilyLegacySolemnPredecessorsPeace With God Author:Robert Dabney
“I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension. I am a person who [commits] breaches of decorum - not in private life, but in my work. They are part of my mode of operation. That kind of playfulness is part of my nature in general. The paradox that, in a way, to take something very seriously, you can't always be serious about it.” WayKindPersonsDesireHateSeriousConsciousI HateCommitOperationsParadoxAcademicPrivate LifePretensionBreachJargonPlayfulnessDecorum Author:William H. Gass
“I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.” PeopleNeedsFirstsPersonsIdeasChristianDesireOpinionSeriousWho I AmMotivatedPersonal Opinions Author:Ken Hensley
“Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire” WarEndsDesirePassionCausesSeriousBasesConcentrationCauses Of War Book:The World as Will and Idea Source: The World as Will and Idea
“A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.” ThinkingWorldWayShouldDesireDesignSeriousReaderFollowingNewspapersObjectivesEveningGossipRoyalCompulsionRoyal Family Author:Umberto Eco
“I have this natural thing in my head that when I sit down to write something serious, I tend to make jokes. I can't help it. I can't help but desire for the narrative to be as complicated and as truthful as possible. That's just the way my head works.” WayWritingI CanHelpingDesireNaturalSeriousJokesComplicatedNarrativeTruthfulNatural Things Author:Justin Simien
“For all of the advice in the magazines on "How to Keep your Love Alive," the salvation of love is not the prolongation of sexual desire but the shared lifelong cultivation of a romantic lightheartedness that softens conflicts and anxieties and focuses serious attention even as it undermines seriousness as such. It's hard to fall out of love so long as you're laughing together.” LongHardTogetherDesireFallLove IsAttentionLaughingAliveAdviceSeriousConflictAnxietySalvationFalling In LoveMagazinesSeriousnessLifelongCultivationSexual DesireLaughing TogetherLightheartedness Book:About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times Source: About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times
“I have done business in China for 25 years, so I know that in order to get China to cooperate with us, we must first actually retaliate against their cyber-attacks so they know we're serious. We have to push back on their desire to control the trade route through the South China Sea through which flows $5 trillion worth of goods and services every year.” KnowsYearsFirstsDoneDesireOrderSeaSeriousFlowTradeSouthChinaGoodsRoutesCyberGoods And ServicesCyber Attacks Author:Carly Fiorina
“We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.” IfsHumansHeartHandsDesirePaySeriousMaterialsInvolvedTragedySacredGreedTemperHuman HeartHigh PricesFrivolity Author:Leonard Cohen
“It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.” DesireNaturalRiskMilitarySeriousObstaclesOperationsEngagedTroopsCausalityMilitary OperationsPerfectly Natural Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.” KindFeelingsSpiritualJoyDesireSpiritualityCommunityPleasurePathDangerSeriousOvercomingSelfishIndulgeBeing SelfishSomber Author:Charles Eisenstein
“My overall approach toward art is to remain as open as possible in front of the world, to always be curious, not to be afraid to experiment, and have a sense of self-criticism and a general criticism toward the surrounding. Also, trying to make a difference between serious research and pure gag! And making as few compromises as possible toward doing things that might not be accepted by the majority of society, even if this dominant society is the one which is ruling the art world. To keep this fundamental idea, even if it's a bit trivial: to have the desire to transform the world.” WorldTryingArtDesireSeriousArt IsCriticismAcceptedCompromiseCuriousMaking A DifferenceSense Of Self Author:Daniel Buren