The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary. — Phyllis Chesler Copy Share Image
Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any… — Errico Malatesta Copy Share Image
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
If you are extremely well known and have a very desirable product, then yes, you probably do suffer a bit from piracy,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted,… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well. — Adrian Grenier Copy Share Image
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument;… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while… — Seth Roberts Copy Share Image
Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them… — Ordway Tead Copy Share Image
Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society… — Martin Nowak Copy Share Image
We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, geologists seem to have been much more intent on making little worlds of their own, than in examining the crust… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
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