Desirable Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.