Desirable Quotes
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more desirable it is that it should be pretty of its kind.
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
I went over the heads of the things a man reckons desirable. No doubt invisibility made it possible to get them, but it made it impossible to enjoy them when they are got.
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over to yourself.
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.
In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.
At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
Never say never to anything, .. As you get older, being alone isn't very desirable. You want someone to drink your coffee with, to share your television with. I missed male companionship.
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.
The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.
Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.
To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
