Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 315 authors

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful. — Gerry McGovern
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one. — Mitch Daniels
I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and… — Stella McCartney
Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities… — Bertrand Russell
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs,… — Genghis Khan
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power? — Edgar Rice Burroughs
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems… — J C Ryle
Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best… — Murray Rothbard
Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a… — Elwyn Brooks White
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is… — Neil Kinnock
The underlying physical laws necessary for the mathematical theory of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and… — Paul Dirac
Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will… — Primo Levi
We do not need more material development, we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power, we need more moral power. We… — Calvin Coolidge
Women really do pay attention to a man's glutes. A tight, compact ass is often voted even more desirable than muscular arms and chest. So,… — Ronnie Coleman
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon the length of days as one of the least of… — Juvenal
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh,… — Abraham Lincoln
All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. — Alfred Marshall
In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the… — Alfred Marshall

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