Desirable Quotes
Desirable Quote of the day
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
Duty without love is deplorable. Duty with love is desirable. Love without duty is Divine.
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.
Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable… .
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with its own pace and its own cultural reference.
Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God. Beloved are Israel, for they were called children of God. Beloved are Israel, for unto them was given the desirable Torah
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.
All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.
Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you.
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.
When the desirable jobs are spending other people's money, reporting on spending other people's money and lobbying to spend other people's money then you know that the society is f***ed.
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
The end justifies the means only when the means used are such as actually bring about the desired and desirable end.
Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!
The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
I believe a 'talented' person is one who has learned how to effectively cultivate and polish any of the many desirable capabilities with which most of us are born but few of us nurture.
