Desirable Quotes
379 quotes by 329 authors
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I…
— Abigail Adams
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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
— James A. Baldwin
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived;…
— David Brainerd
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The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it.…
— Jeff Bridges
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I was the first Navy, Marine or Air Force person who had been an astronaut to return back to the Air Force. I had certain…
— Buzz Aldrin
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You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all…
— Kim Cattrall
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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.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
— Lawrence Durrell
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A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community…
— Koichiro Matsuura
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Begin to imagine what the desirable outcome would be like. Go over these mental pictures and delineate details and refinements. Play them over and over…
— Maxwell Maltz
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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…
— William Graham Sumner
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
— Andre Heller
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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…
— Seth Roberts
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The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.
— Aristotle
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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as well as public reasons. And…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind…
— George Boole
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