Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

When God desires to destroy a thing he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Uncontrolled the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

God's desire is that we excel.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

If thou desire the love of God and man be humble for the proud heart as it loves none but itself is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength nor reason can prevail.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future you can have more happiness.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Jim Carrey a comic genius has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

What gay culture is before it is anything else before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain is a culture of friendship.

Sincere friendship towards God in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent willing being does most apparently directly and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

The three main sources of scepticism are first that not every people desires freedom second that democracy in certain parts of the world would be dangerous and third that there is little the world's democracies can do to advance freedom outside their countries.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

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.

I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.

For the past several years I have remained what others would consider underground. I did this in order to build a community of people like-minded in their desire for freedom and the right to pursue their goals and lives without being manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex with a completely different agenda.

Their poverty secured their freedom since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.