Desirable Quotes

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.

Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

Everybody can be desirable if they take care of themselves.

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.

Pleasure, no matter how desirable, is never innocent: it's always presupposing and assuming a certain kind of social order, one usually shot through structures of domination.

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love.

Have you ever noticed?--people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

You think of luxury when you think of Calvin Klein. He created this lifestyle that's really desirable, so our whole project has that quality of being lasting.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

I am Western and I see no need or reason to change that. The Western lifestyle has many things to offer, as do the Eastern methods of self discovery. I think blending the two is very desirable.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

I hate clothes that look saleable. I love when they look desirable.

Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

Since the individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining, the average man must take to daydreaming.

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

They may not look dangerous, but if angered [bowtruckles] will gouge out human eyes with their fingers, which, as you can see, are very sharp and not at all desirable near the eyeballs.

It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so, that governments should possess that knowledge.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.

It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.

I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.