Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 329 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are some desires that are not desirable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine! — Lawrence Durrell
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
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
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
Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good. — Abraham Lincoln
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. — Andre Heller
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
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself. — Aristotle
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
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
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
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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