Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).
MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.
As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a name at which nations tremble.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.
If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.
If something bothers you, focus on the solution or the desired outcome, not the part that has you spinning out in the middle of the night.
Before I got the desired effect in my voice, I trained in classical music under my father for several years.
No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.
[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation.
But they none of them create the psychological conditions in which I first saw, or desired to see, the flower.
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
Only with winter-patience can we bring the deep-desired, long-awaited Spring.
We must learn to let go, to give up, to make room for the things we have prayed for and desired.
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
Power is the ability to define phenomena, and make it act in a desired manner.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.
Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.
For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention.
Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.
Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.
Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired
President Lech Kaczynski is not at all active in Poland and his image abroad leaves a lot to be desired.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.
I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
Let's face it - no matter how independent you are, you still have this nagging need to be desired.
Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.
For I have had too much Of apple-picking:I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.
This was freedom; to feel what the heart desired with no thought to the opinion of the rest... She was free, for love liberates.
Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.
Thoughts are to the Desires as Scouts and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired.
The language of enthusiasm, of things accomplished with love and purpose, and as part of a search for something believed in and desired.
Nothing else but an insatiate thirst of enjoying a greedily desired object.
For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn't answer all the questions and it leaves something to be desired.
At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.
The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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