Desirable Quotes

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.

The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

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 living wage within 48 hours.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

It desirable to add one or two facts bearing on the domestic political aspects of the problem.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.

Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself in bondage, would care to call any control agreeable? Think about it!

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point.

All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.