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Last updated on November 13, 2024.
Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?
I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable.
There is a knowledge which is desirable, though nothing come of it, as being of itself a treasure, and a sufficient remuneration of years of labor.
It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?
There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.
Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a domestic peril, a deadly fascination, and a painted ill.
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.
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
Qualities like being considerate, loyal, caring, protective and honest are what attract me in a man and I find such men desirable.
Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.
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.
A friend puts body moisturiser on every day because it makes her feel desirable. I have started doing it, too, and it really works.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
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.
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
Besides offering desirable products, the Free People brand continue to produce some of the most compelling imagery and customer engagement in the industry.
Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.
Growing up in Mississippi, I was such a farmer, and it's not desirable to bring attention to yourself. That's my nature, and all of a sudden, I'm in show business.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
The activities of drawing, eating and drinking, all involve assimilations by the self of desirable elements from the world, a transfer of goodness from without to within.
One needs to fully accept that surprises sometimes happen and complete control over outcome is not necessary or even desirable.
Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.
The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.
The popular notion that an increase in the stock of money is socially and economically beneficial and desirable is one of the great fallacies of our time.
While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends.
Leadership is about change... The best way to get people to venture into unknown terrain is to make it desirable by taking them there in their imaginations.
The educational system should be a sieve, through which all the children of a country are passed. It is highly desirable that no child escape inspection.
I think that whole aura of marriage and family is desirable, especially when you're involved in this kind of business. You want that security in your personal life.
Human progress having reached a high level through respect for the liberty and dignity of men, it has become desirable to re-affirm these evident truths
Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.
If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event.
If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness
In a day of footloose movements of people and of mixed marriages in the ancestry of the most desirable elements of the community we preach unabashed the gospel of the pure race.
I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.
A literate world is a possible and desirable one. There are enough resources. What is now needed is the collective will of the international community to ensure that the necessary support is forthcoming.
No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
Millennials, as others, want creative, durable, desirable, and beautiful products. But they do add a new criteria: respect.
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.
It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I'm concerned.
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.
Beauty is highly desirable but simplicity and usefulness are the overwhelming fashion of our age. Just because it's beautiful does not mean it's useful.
It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time.
And there I am, blushing and confused, made beautiful by Cinna’s hands, desirable by Peeta’s confession, tragic by circumstance, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.
Our kids go to school and they come out feeling not intelligent, not desirable, not attractive or appealing to others.
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.
Yes, we can make prudent choices as parents, but we can't create an environment where there's zero risk for our children. Not only is that impossible, I don't think it's desirable, either.
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."
She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.
