desired

• These centres being aroused in the thought of the movement desired, which is the necessary mental preparation for the movement, they in turn stimulate the real motor centres which lie below the cortex at the second level. —  The Story of the Mind
• How, I say, can that be desired which is not seen, if there is no knowledge whatever of it--if towards it neither the intellect nor the sense has exercised any act whatever; but, on the contrary, it is even dubious whether it be intellectual or sensuous, whether a thing corporeal or incorporeal, whether it be one or two or more, or of one fashion or of another TANS. —  The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem
• This long-desired, ardently-hoped-for emergence, itself a long-drawn-out process, is bound to pave the way for the emancipation of this same Faith from the fetters of orthodoxy in Islamic countries, as well as the ultimate recognition of the independent character of the Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh in His homeland Owing to the grievous losses sustained, and the necessity to demonstrate world-wide Bahá’í solidarity, an “Aid the Persecuted” Fund has been inaugurated for the purpose of bringing immediate relief to the despoiled and homeless victims. —  Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957
• This is what philosophy desired, which is only the rational expression of the mind's impulses The philosophers of the Constituent Assembly receded before the difficulties of this labour. —  History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution
• He desired--desired desperately, I felt sure--to confide in me alone. —  Poison Island

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