Quotes About Desirable

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

Are not heaven and happiness things desirable, and to be preferred before sin and misery? Why then do you not embrace them? Or are they the worse because they come swimming to you in the blood of Christ?

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.

There is a very prevalent tenet with youth, that good company is every thing desirable, and that bad is even better than none.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

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

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.

An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

I do not see it as desirable for South Korea to take the back seat and watch discussions between the U.S. and China.

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

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is considered by many to be a highly desirable place to live.

Both Christ cosmically and Jesus personally make the unbelievable believable and the unthinkable desirable. Jesus Christ is a Sacrament of the Presence of God for the whole universe!

The only power desirable is the grace to pray.

That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas.

Good character is all about improving your personal moral values to advance to a more desirable state.

Permissiveness constantly deprives children of the examples of adult-centred life where they can find the place they seek in a natural hierarchy of greater and lesser experience, and where their desirable actions are accepted and their undesirable actions rejected, while they themselves are always accepted. Children need to see that they are assumed to be wed intentioned, naturally social people who are trying to do the right thing and want a reliable reaction from their elders to guide them.

Nothing creates cool like scarcity.

Against all this mechanized barbarism, existentialist psychology and humanist psychology — aided, perhaps not coincidentally, by the metaphors of quantum physics — suggests that other models of human existence are possible and thinkable and desirable.

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains.

This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

The knowledge that my discriminations are skewed and not always universally desirable doesn't stop me in the least from making them.

Leadership is the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they come to find desirable and which motivates them over the long haul.