The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.
But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.
You can go out feet first, and that's not my desire, or you can say, I think we've served with distinction, and this is the time to go home and seek a new challenge.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.