A Quote by Stanley Hoffmann

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone. — © Stanley Hoffmann
Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.
Deep down, everyone wants the truth.
Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself
Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.
Putin is just maneuvering. He wants to be respected. He wants to be an important player in global politics. He wants people to negotiate with him and he wants to have the trade-offs here and there and spheres of influence. He's very much a person of the 20th century in the global and geopolitical space.
Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.
Deep down? That sounds like settling to me. You shouldn't have to venture deep down in order to get to love.
I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.
What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all?
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me. Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day. So that's my practice.
You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across?
If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.
Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.
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