Sentence examples for desire something to from inspiring English sources

To have something to desire, something to make, something to achieve, and at last something genuine to give.

This "non-existence" can be two-fold: i) I can desire something which cannot exist either logically or physically, for example, I can desire that I had wings; ii) if I desire something to be the case, then what I desire does not exist, yet.

To desire something is to be to some extent motivated to do it but of course we often fail to do what we desire because we desire something else more, because it is impractical or out of some form of weakness.

The reason to quench desire is the danger of desiring the wrong thing: to desire something is to believe it to be good, and to have a runaway impulse towards it.

At most, they can provide you with a reason to intend to desire something bad, or to try to desire something bad.

These authors typically explain away the apparent plausibility of the examples by attributing it to a widespread confusion between reasons to desire something, and reasons to get oneself to desire it.

Always there when your fortunes come crashing down and you still desire something satisfying to eat.

Yet one can also desire something contrary to one's interests when it is sufficiently good for others.

Typically, any time women (in particular) desire something, we tend to feel this deep shame and guilt.

To desire something, he continues, his melancholic gaze falling again upon the Colonel's daughter, is to lose it.

(I might be persuaded, especially under moral pressure, that I desire to desire something when in fact I do not).