Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
Harold Pinter

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
Donald Cargill

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
Preston Brooks

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
John Barton

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.
Sitting Bull

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
Gustav Mahler

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.
Robert Fortune

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Harold S. Geneen

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
James Otis

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.
John Cameron

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.
Archer J. P. Martin

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
Theodore Bikel

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.
Curtis Carlson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson