Top 648 Desirable Quotes & Sayings

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

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.

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.

I got sick of being famous. It is not a desirable 'job.'

I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

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

It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

Aesthetics have substantial political consequences. How one views oneself as beautiful or not beautiful or desirable or not desirable has deep consequences in terms of one’s feelings of self-worth and one’s capacity to be a political agent.

A youthful age is desirable, but aged youth is troublesome and grievous.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

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.

Women who are too easy to attract are perceived as less desirable.

I want to be known as a desirable actress who can perform - that's something I strive to be.

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

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!

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

A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

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.

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

You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.

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

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!

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

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

It is always good to keep looking different and desirable.

One is more desirable when loved, not feared.

There are some desires that are not desirable.

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow.

There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

Lucidity, I maintain, is almost always desirable.

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Everybody can be desirable if they take care of themselves.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

I think it's very desirable to be an individual and a free thinker.

I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.

After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

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

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

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.

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.

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

There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.

To have fame follow us is well, but it is not a desirable avant-courier.

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

The lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people.

In my opinion, unique personality makes for a desirable trait.

In the movies, there's this idea that you're only desirable if you're physically dazzling.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

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

One of the greatest problems that money creates is that you never know whether you are loved or your money is loved, whether you are desirable or your money is desirable. And it is so difficult to figure out, that one would have preferred not to have had money; at least life would have been simple.

I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable

[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.

Is uniformity of opinion desirable? No more than that of face and stature.