Desirable Quotes

379 quotes by 315 authors

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible. — Cedric Price
I... [proposed] three distinct grades of education, reaching all classes. 1. Elementary schools for all children generally, rich and poor. 2. Colleges for a middle… — Thomas Jefferson
Since this girl in front of him represented not a person, but again the image, or something desirable, the last thing we would expect him… — Ted Bundy
We are not here to advocate abortion. We do not ask this Court to rule that abortion is good or desirable in any particular situation.… — Sarah Weddington
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? — Rene Thom
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to… — Abraham Maslow
The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate… — Nikola Tesla
In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began… — Nikola Tesla
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, â€” but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. — John Maynard Keynes
God is triune, and it is as triune that he is so good and desirable. — Michael Reeves
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.' — George Orwell
Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything. — Haider Ackermann
Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature. — Thomas Jefferson
Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees. — Saul Bellow
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley

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