Quotes About Desirable

In areas of California, once regarded as highly desirable, overcrowding has become so bad that in a recent survey about a third of the Californians said they'd rather be living in some other state.

Truth, the least desired thing, is the most desirable.

manual of virtuous character traits that describes qualities to nurture in ourselves and to seek in our friends and lovers. At the top of the list would be kindness, a willingness to give of oneself to another. This most desirable of virtues governs all the others, including a capacity for empathy and love. Like other forms of art, we may find it hard to define, but when we are in its presence, we feel it.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

The lives of such are most desirable, and the deaths of such will be most lamented, who make it their business to serve their generation.

Tan grande es la fuerza de la costumbre, y tan deseable que las costumbres desde el principio sean buenas.

Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt successfully overcame that bad habit of living, so highly desirable to be got rid of by some people.

Equally important was the approach of the advertising, which can be summarized with a single word: "minimalist." "Billy Graham, Harringay Arena, 7: 30 Every Night." Or "Hear Billy Graham." Or just "Billy Graham," with his photo. Crusade organizers took a cue from advertisements for Cadillacs in the United States. They gave just enough information to arouse curiosity, implying that the product was so desirable it sold itself.

I knew that monsters were far more gentle and more desirable than the monsters living inside 'nice people.' Accepting that you are a monster gives you the leeway to not behave like one. When you deny being a monster, you behave like one.

A woman who is very secure in herself, what she's about, what she wants to do, who probably figures that she's a prize catch-sooner or later he's going to come around.

It is neither feasible nor desirable for Europe to establish itself as a geopolitical equal or competitor of the U.S.

Conservatives still attack feminism with the absurd notion that it makes its adherents less attractive to men; in truth, it is feminism that has made forty-two-year-old women so desirable.

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.

I had the foolish idea that we should test for desirable and useful traits so that we could assemble ideally balanced teams to the colonies. [...] It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to America based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there.

It's like those foolish attempts to control immigration to America based on the traits that were deemed desirable, when in fact the only trait that defines Americans historically is "descended from somebody willing to give up everything to live there." And we won't go into the way Australian colonists were selected!

Are you enviable? How can you make yourself enviable?

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

And as we mean to be very powerful writers, as well as every thing else that is desirable, power is never seen to so much advantage as when it goes about a thing carelessly; you like to see a light horseman, who seems as if he could abolish you with a passing cut, and not a great heavy fellow, who looks as if he should tumble down in case of missing you, or a little red staring busy body, who would be obliged to wield his sword two-handed, and kill himself first with exertion.

Absence with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and desirable effect.

While I can have my mornings to myself," said she, "it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for everybody.

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.