Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect. — Antoine Arnault Copy Share Image
Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable. — Roberto Azevedo Copy Share Image
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a… — William Vickrey Copy Share Image
Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature?but the prettier the kind of a thing is, the more… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
I think that whole aura of marriage and family is desirable, especially when you're involved in this kind of business. You want… — John Wesley Shipp Copy Share Image
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from… — William O. Douglas 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
Conservatism, though a necessary element in any stable society, is not a social program; in its paternalistic, nationalistic and power adoring tendencies… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Branding is not merely about differentiating products; it is about striking emotional chords with consumers. It is about cultivating identity, attachment, and… — Nirmalya Kumar Copy Share Image
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
I see being a woman in the world as a social problem. That's very urgently problematic in terms of it still being… — Anna Biller 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
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I place a higher value on work ethic than talent, because, in certain areas, you just need to cast, you need to… — Damon Lindelof 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
“Some women, it seemed, were entirely without guile and bestowed their affections with hardly a moment's conscious thought. Others set out to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“They [progressives] are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a… — Peter Guthrie Tait Copy Share Image
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