The scenery was luminescent and the women desirable.

At times of recession, running a budget deficit is highly desirable. Once the economy begins to recover, you have to balance the budget. But…

— George Soros

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

— Susan Sarandon

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so…

— Bernhard von Bulow

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

— Anthony Trollope

The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not.”

— Jo Nesbø

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I don't just live to work because I don't think that's healthy or desirable.

— Harris Dickinson

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence.

— Voltaire

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…

— Tim Worstall

Social and cultural change, however desirable, should not be effected by the engines of national power. Let us, through persuasion and education, seek to…

— Barry Goldwater

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

— Indira Gandhi

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in…

— T. S. Eliot

Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that…

— Ginger Rogers