A Quote by Gordon Brown

Making the desirable possible requires us to make the desirable popular, electable, credible, and something that people want to hold on to.

Gordon Brown

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Credible Desirable Hold Make Making People Popular Possible Requires Something Us Want

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Gordon Brown
British - Politician
Born: February 20, 1951

Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

Aristotle

There are some areas of the US where competition is less than desirable. And we need to be careful not to overly consolidate the hospital industry. But some consolidation is both necessary and desirable.

Maria Bartiromo

One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

Mahatma Gandhi

The most desirable man in my opinion is Sidharth Shukla and among women, I think of myself as being desirable.

Shehnaaz Gill

We depend for so much on those we love that of course we want them to have desirable personal qualities and to believe that we do too. But if we pin our love for another, and theirs for us, based on personal qualities, it confers an unacceptable conditionality and substitutability on love: we don't want to be exchanged for a better model of whatever our lovers deem to be desirable, so there is a strong tendency to want: to be loved for no reason at all, simply be loved.

David Wong

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Alex Pareene

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

Indira Gandhi

Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do.

Anthony Trollope

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Monica Baldwin

Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.

Martin Nowak

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

Henry Sidgwick

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.

John Stuart Mill

Somehow, I'm in denial about being desirable. But every time my wife tells me to shave or cut my hair or clean up my look, I playfully boast to her that I'm the most desirable man!