Desirable Quotes

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As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable… — Ivy Compton-Burnett
I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice,… — Albert Einstein
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings… — John Stuart Mill
Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier… — William Lyon Phelps
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve… — John Stuart Mill
The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell… — Umberto Eco
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to evaluate new proposals… — Milton Friedman
I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me,… — Adolf Hitler
I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is… — Iris Murdoch
The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all… — Alexander Hamilton
That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy… — James Madison
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim… — Arthur Schopenhauer
...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur… — Noel Ignatiev
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. — Maureen O'Hara
I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go… — Shelley Duvall
I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it! — Susan Sarandon
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan conditionâ€”hyper-densityâ€”without once losing faith in… — Rem Koolhaas
I'm against ObamaCare, which is imposing radical change, and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change.... I don't think right-wing social engineering is… — Newt Gingrich

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