Ruth Pitter Quotes
The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
Quotes to Explore
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Liberals have to get more comfortable with dealing with the poor as they actually are. I admire their refusal to look down on the least among us, but at some level, that can become an excuse to never really look at the problem at all.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
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I've missed out on a huge goal but the desire is still there.
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For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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It's a really weird thing, modern divorce. I found out I was getting divorced on television. That was kind of weird.
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This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.
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The lily in splendor, the vine in her grace, The fox in the forest, all had their desire, As then I had mine, in the place that was happy and poor.
