Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 315 authors

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.… — Taiichi Ohno
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. — Neville Goddard
Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it. I make my… — Voltairine de Cleyre
Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a… — William Vickrey
Being negative is easy. There will always be a downside to everything good, a hurdle to everything desirable, a con to every pro. The real… — Carolyn Hax
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate… — James R Newman
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking. — Clement Freud
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me. — Warsan Shire
We shall never prevent the abuse of power if we are not prepared to limit power in a way which occasionally may prevent its use… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Right at this moment, I only want silence. I believe that the end of life is silence in the love people have for you. I've… — Vincent Price
Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. — Richard Stallman
One is more desirable when loved, not feared. — Robert M. Hensel
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape… — Paul Popenoe
Previous to this time I had never even a balloon except from a distance. Being interested in their construction, I was about to institute a… — George Armstrong Custer
If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect… — Aldous Huxley
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. — Frank Herbert
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable? — Unknown Author
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much… — Mohnish Pabrai

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