Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there’s a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general. – Nick Kroll
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. – Emanuel Swedenborg
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. – Napoleon Hill
I founded Minted in 2007 with the desire to use ‘crowd-sourcing’ to bring designs from the best emerging and independent designers in the world to consumers. – Mariam Naficy
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire… But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it’s very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it’s quite a miracle. – Nick Nolte
Luckily, I’m in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. – Chico Hamilton
I guess I’ve never really had a great desire to be a leading lady, or be seen as an ingenue. – Melanie Lynskey
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made. – Frank B. Kellogg
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world. – Fay Weldon
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. – Eric Hoffer
I’m in the theater because of two plays: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘Death of a Salesman.’ – Mike Nichols
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. – Mikheil Saakashvili
I’ve always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there’s just been an innate desire to feel that connection. – Ellen Page
We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. – Gore Vidal
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it. – Paulo Coelho
There is nothing that I’d love to do more than negotiate with Palestinians. This is my desire. This is my dream. This is my mission. – Ehud Olmert
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’ – Dalai Lama
My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it. – Paul Theroux
I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn’t like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be. – Phoebe Philo
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head. – Edith Head
I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowth of my desire to tell stories. – Mike White
There’s so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you’d be naive if you didn’t try to hold on to your own way of doing things. – Felicity Jones
My New Year’s Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds. – Nia Vardalos
