Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 327 authors

I'm almost reluctant to say it because it sounds superficial, but when you lose your hair, it just affects the way that you look at… — Joan Lunden
Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway. — Damien Hirst
They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between… — Johannes Voet
It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with… — Isaac Asimov
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions. — Unknown Author
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. — Richard de Bury
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us… — Diane Ackerman
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in… — Noel Tichy
Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess… — Martin Wolf
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are… — Vikas Swarup
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in… — Robert Brunner
The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet,… — Nadine Gordimer
Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native species, like the… — Jim Knight
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. — G. Stanley Hall
I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed. — Kathy Griffin
The truly gifted negotiator, then, is one whose initial position is exaggerated enough to allow for a series of concessions that will yield a desirable… — Robert Cialdini
Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a… — Bonaventure

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