Desirable Quotes

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

God is triune, and it is as triune that he is so good and desirable.

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

There's nothing wrong with being a pretty girl, because you want to be, desirable. There's nothing wrong with that, but you should have a plan B even if that is getting pregnant by a rich dude.

There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

One of the old philosophers says that it is the part of wisdom to sometimes seem a fool; but in our day there are too many ready-made ones to render this a desirable policy.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.

What the heart most wants, the mind finds reasonable, the will finds doable, and the emotions find desirable.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths

If America becomes militant, it will be because its people choose to become such; it will be because they think that war and warlikeness are desirable.

There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

Choose a life format that is the most desirable to you.

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go.

The power of thought is not a compelling force. It is a building force, and it is only when used in the latter sense that desirable results can be produced.

While a democratic process is morally desirable for arriving at a decision, it doesn’t necessarily produce the best outcomes.