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While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite. — Richelle E. Goodrich

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. — Nicholas Thorburn

What is desirable in a man is his kindness. — Anonymous

All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes — Andrew Heller

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

Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method. — Mahatma Gandhi

You can cream your dream by enriching your thought with clean and desirable things. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You are to me an object so intensely desirable that the air I breathe in a room empty of you is unhealthy — John Keats

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. — Fran Lebowitz

I pray that we will desire each other and no one else. Show me how to make myself attractive and desirable to him and be the kind of partner he needs. — Stormie O'martian

Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. — John Stuart Mill

For of what account are Truth and Love when Life itself has ceased to seem desirable? — Clifford Whittingham Beers

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable — Seneca The Younger

It is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Goodness is no part of the definition of the God Hypothesis, merely a desirable add-on. — Richard Dawkins

The fact that I'm the reason for that heated look in his eyes makes me feel even more desirable than when I imagine being perfect. — Colleen Hoover

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime. — Richard Stallman

So if ketosis is so desirable, then why has there been such deafening silence or even fierce negativity on the subject from health authorities? — Eric C. Westman

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. — Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden

The problem is to see not what is desirable, or nice, or politically feasible, but what is necessary. — T.R. Fehrenbach

Whether it's trying to convince others that something is more true, more virtuous, or more desirable
all communication is rhetoric in action. — Leonard Koren

We believe that from both a German and a Polish perspective, it is desirable for Great Britain to remain in the European Union. — Angela Merkel

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. — Sun Tzu

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person. — Greta Salpeter

The general perception of writers' lives is that they are exciting and desirable. But you generally spend most of your time cooking and cleaning. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Happy he who died when death was desirable. — Publilius Syrus

It isn't that secrets are never needed in security. It's that they are never desirable. — Whitfield Diffie

Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide
what's possible. — Brian Tracy

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means. — Max McKeown

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable. — Pierre Trudeau

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. — Isaac Watts

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION. — Peter Drucker

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

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

Choose a life format that is the most desirable to you. — Steven Redhead

God is the sum of all desirable qualities, and he possesses every quality that is truly desirable. — Wayne A. Grudem

If it were considered desirable to destroy a human being, the only thing necessary would be to give his work a character of uselessness — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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. — Ernestine Rose

What seems so necessary today may not even be desirable tomorrow. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price. — Francois Fenelon

If you drink the good wine of the noble countess, you have to entertain her less desirable friends. — Virginia Woolf

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome. — George Whitefield

Political utopianism1 is tyranny disguised as a desirable, workable, and even paradisiacal governing ideology. — Mark R. Levin

Innovation is discovery at the intersection of what's desirable, viable, and feasible. — Trevor Owens

Everybody can be desirable if they take care of themselves. — Arjun Rampal

Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable. — Bernard Berenson

Emotionally shut-down black males are often represented as epitomizing desirable masculinity. — Bell Hooks

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

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

I've always argued that it is just as desirable, just as possible, to have philosopher plumbers as philosopher kings. — Edith Green

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

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable? — John Kenneth Galbraith

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. — John W. Campbell

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. — Henry David Thoreau

While it is desirable to build up the colored race, we must not sacrifice our best and purest white friends. — Hiram Rhodes Revels

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains. — L. Frank Baum

To barbecue is a way of life rather than a desirable method of cooking. — Clement Freud

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary. — Arthur Balfour

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

You are more beautiful than any woman I've ever met. And if there weren't so many people here, I'd show you just how desirable I think you are. — Tina Folsom

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles. — Maureen O'Hara

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children. — G. Stanley Hall

It was the thought of him that I had problems with, I realised. The reality was really rather desirable. — Dorothy Koomson

It is sometimes desirable to distort or accentuate with lenses of various focal lengths ... Deliberate distortion may actually add to its reality. — Arthur Rothstein

A scientist can hardly encounter anything more desirable than, just as a work is completed, to have its foundation give way. — Gottlob Frege

On the occasions where we do have to participate, to do more than nothing, it is desirable to have a glass of wine to soften all the everything. — Amy Krouse Rosenthal

If the corn laws were altered, the British artisan might again be able to subsist by twelve hours' labour, a most desirable event. — Joseph Hume

Leadership is the ability to encourage the best efforts of others in working toward a desirable goal. — Spencer W. Kimball

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

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Innocence is a desirable thing, a dainty thing, an appealing thing, in its place; but carried too far, it is merely ridiculous. — Dorothy Parker

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. — John Stuart Mill

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible. — F Scott Fitzgerald

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root. — Rabindranath Tagore

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

Mr John Langdon Davies warns women 'that when children cease to be altogether desirable, women cease to be altogether necessary'. — Virginia Woolf

Duty without love is deplorable.
Duty with love is desirable.
Love without duty is Divine. — Sathya Sai Baba

The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things. — Thomas Aquinas

There are some desires that are not desirable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. — Anna Howard Shaw

Unemployment is rarely considered desirable except by those who have not experienced it. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. — Frank Herbert

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish. — Plum Sykes

Virtue is more desirable in a child than intelligence. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable. — Sushma Swaraj

Enough fine weather and money and a few memorable meals make any place desirable. — Elizabeth McCracken

Panty Melter: an exceedingly rare species of man blessed with so many desirable attributes he effortlessly gains access into a girl's panties. — Tracy Brogan

Ignoring the pain is more desirable than confronting it. And that's survival one-oh-one. — Siobhan Davis

Scientific theories tell us what is possible; myths tell us what is desirable. Both are needed to guide proper action. — John Maynard Smith

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. — John Braine

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable. — Anna Julia Cooper

The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. — Barack Obama

When you initiate romance in your marriage relationship, you communicate to your spouse that he or she is desirable to you. — Jimmy Evans

There is a very great difference between older and old, the former being desirable and the latter being inevitable. — Michelle Franklin

The great thing about facts is that you don't have to ponder whether they're desirable or not. — Jo Nesbo

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C.S. Lewis

Common sense is both more rare and more desirable in leaders than mere intelligence. — Voltaire