Desired Quotes

Two things are desired in order that intercourse may be had: First, that a minister or agent be allowed to reside at the capital. Second, that commerce between different countries be freely allowed.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed.

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.

Your desired behavior must become just as much a habit as your undesired behavior was before.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

Junipers are generally chosen for the latter purpose, as they can be more readily bent into the desired form; the eyes and tongue are added afterwards, and the representation altogether is really good.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

We also had to bring with us some desired scientific equipment over to the station as well as assemble new machines. For that, I had to conduct two space walks.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.

Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.