"What is desire?-- The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire."

-- Theodore Roethke

#Fire Quotes #Desire Quotes #Impulse Quotes

“I will help-but only so much, only so far. It is not that I believe these children are less than my own. It is not that I believe I do not have a responsibility for them. It is just that in a world of haves and have-nots, I do not want to give up too much of what I have. I do not want to diminish the complexity and diversity of my life. Instead, I will choose to spend another seventy-five dollars on myself rather than send another child to school, and I will choose to do this over and over again. I no longer think of myself as a good person. I have adjusted to that.”
“Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.”
“I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.
“I may be permitted, like the doctors, to cure a greater evil by a less, for I shall not fall seriously in love with the young widow, I think, nor she with me - that's certain - but if I find a little pleasure in her society I may surely be allowed to seek it; and if the star of her divinity be bright enough to dim the lustre of Eliza's, so much the better, but I scarcely can think it”
“I find it is happening in different ways to every industry in the world, and positioning yourself for that, and trying to get ahead of that, is a big conversation right now.”
“If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.”
“From that day on, I ran from spot to spot.”
“God gave us Jesus who is The Way.”

Source : Source: www.biblegateway.com

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