Desirable Quotes

It might be argued that genuine spontaneity is not really possible or desirable so long as printed scores of great works exist. All modern musicians are, for better or worse, prisoners of Gutenberg.

Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible.

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse.

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

The designated driver program, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, drop them off at the wrong house.

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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 number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

The reclamation scheme is both feasible and desirable.

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale, to dynamism, to consensus, and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers.

I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet.

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 term Goods for that purpose.

It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.

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.

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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 in that region is neither possible nor even desirable.

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.