Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 315 authors

One of the functions of art is to offer a more desirable reality - a model, as it were, of another style of existence with… — Peter Schmidt
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they… — Theodore Roosevelt
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. — Richard Steele
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. — Saint Francis de Sales
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a… — David Letterman
I believe that prayer in public schools should be voluntary. It is difficult for me to see how religious exercises can be a requirement in… — Gerald R. Ford
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the… — Thomas Aquinas
One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people… — Mahatma Gandhi
The only honorable, desirable kind of fear that shouldn't be feared is the fear of harm on a loved one. It's the kind of fear… — Criss Jami
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable. — Pierre Trudeau
Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but… — Charles Caleb Colton
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? — John Kenneth Galbraith
With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that… — James Madison
The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house. — Jeff Foxworthy
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality it… — Thomas Frank
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights. — Frank Gaffney
Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help… — Herman Kahn

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