When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.
Desire Quotes (1093 Quotes)
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
. . . this life is a perpetual chequer-work of good and evil, pleasure and pain. When in possession of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it again.
You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night...
Howard is a tough team who came in here with a desire to play basketball tonight. But I have a desire not to lose. I don't know how to accept losing sometimes and my teammates know that.
Thought gives rise to desire.
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
If it goes well in the league, even though my son has never shown any desire whatsoever to coach, ... In about four years if he doesn't have a job, I am going to hire him.
We want to make sure the city is offering the services that our citizens need and desire.
We've had a great commerce experience with Nebraska and this shows the desire of many (U.S.) states to work for free trade with the United States.
There is a feeling of Elizabethan, and there's a feeling of timelessness. My desire is to make the past present, that it speaks to us today. A feeling of ancient ancestors who court and woo each other, so that it's kind of transparent and the audience can enter into this.
I bought Inter for reasons of passion and I have handled all these years with the desire to sell the club after winning a lot of trophies. Unfortunately the team has faded in the face of the big challenges. I need to take that into account and have the duty to do so.
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams . . .
She isn't legacy focused, she's future focused. Today is reality. Yesterday is history. Her desire is not to change the future but to be there today.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
He's definitely on the right track. It seems like Tiger got his focus and determination back this year. Obviously he has another eight to go and he'll have to play great. But never say never with Tiger. I think he has the desire as well as the ability to carry him through.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.
The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.
I thought it went really well. I'd say we had about 25 people. We had a good cross-representation of people that live on all sides of the project. There were some very thoughtful questions about both the process of construction and things that they should anticipate, and also the desire to have strong communications with us while we're going through that.
This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.
We could go as-is today. Our desire is always to try to improve and look at every possibility that's out there, and we'll continue to do that.
She was bummed out with swimming and was thinking about quitting. Dana was only interested in swimming miles with the long strokes. She did not have any desire to learn the short strokes. I talked with her about changing that, and she had a wonderful attitude with it. She really loves swimming and wanted to fall in love with it again.
A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
Nothing anonymous will ever persuadethe faith and conduct of the preacher give life and power to his message. Thus preaching is different from mere feeling. You may teach mathematics or geography without being fully convinced. But in delivering the Gospel message, if it is to be a living life-giving message, there must be in the preacher a sense of message and the desire to deliver it.
In my experience a painting is not made with colors and paint at all. I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint?
Tony will bring excitement and knowledge to the many different areas we want to establish on the broadcasting end, ... Our desire is to have excellence in everything we do here and Tony no doubt brings that to our very important radio and TV vision.
And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey.
As parents, we have the responsibility to prepare our sons to be worthy and to have a desire to serve the Lord. We are stewards of those sons, held in reserve for this day.
Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
I have a desire to be a coach some day, and coach Fennelly knows that. During the games, I call the plays (on the court), so there was no need to change that.
Desire is like the shadow caused by the morning sun it gets longer when you run to catch it makes you a fool.
But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility - the environment and civil rights. As a corporation, you cannot let the desire for unanimity override your obligation for fairness.
We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions.
Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the health of their fame as men are, and, speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it.
My greatest desire is to see all Australians treat each other as equals as we travel together towards the new century.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
As long as we have healthy guys to spare, you want to make sure those coming in are capable of playing at a good level and aren't just anxious to get back for personal desire.
First and foremost - our vision for a united and peaceful Georgia is based on respect for the desire - and respect for the right - to South Ossetian autonomy.
When the mind is disturbed, it is attracted by ten thousand things. With attraction, craving will arise. With craving, the desire to obtain things to satisfy craving will emerge. The mind that desires is rooted in earthly existence and is controlled by the pa-k'ua of Later Heaven.
Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free.
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
her soul aspire
Above the vulgar flight of low desire?