Top 648 Desirable Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 14, 2024.
The most desirable thing in life after health and modest means is leisure with dignity.
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, — but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense.
I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.
Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.
The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable.
The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.
It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors.
It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
At this moment in history, we are called to act as if we truly believe that liberty and justice for all is a desirable thing.
Britain is a desirable place to live mainly because it is an island, which most people can't get to.
If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
Many 'natural' events - like early death, disease, hardship - are neither desirable nor necessary.
Indeed, public scrutiny is desirable for healthy functioning of judiciary itself.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
Everything really desirable has come about because of, or in spite of, wine!
By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
I do not see it as desirable for South Korea to take the back seat and watch discussions between the U.S. and China.
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.
Free education for all - whilst it is a desirable notion, in South Africa it will simply not be affordable.
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.
We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union.
The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.
Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.
Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.
Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.
The main thing going on around intimacy is that we've developed a lot of strategies so we'll be a desirable package.
Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal.
It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.
The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking.
A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.
Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven.
Any brand in the world wants to make desirable product. But we don't shove it down people's throats.
