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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

How do I wish to be remembered, if at all? I think perhaps just as a fairly desirable sort of character actor. — James Mason

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

Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well. — Adrian Grenier

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable ... — Edward Gibbon

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

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 — Starhawk

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

It's human to want what we need, and it's human to desire what we don't need but find desirable. — Fernando Pessoa

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. — Donna Karan

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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

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

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

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

I tried to abandon my tenacity, but I just couldn't let it go. — Tim Fargo

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

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

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 lifestyle that I have is probably neither desirable nor useful to most people. — Frank Zappa

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The glory of the nation you love is a desirable end, - but generally to be obtained at your neighbor's expense. — John Maynard Keynes

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future. — Jacob Burckhardt

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. — Warsan Shire

An object must be desirable for envy to work as a motivating force. — Chris Nodder

In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil. — Baha'u'llah

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. — Neville Marriner

For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number. — Malcolm Gladwell

Let's show people how desirable it is to step it up and climb towards heaven. — Adrian Grenier

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

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. — Monica Baldwin

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

There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live — Fela Durotoye

It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. — Woody Allen

Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible — Roger Rosenblatt

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people. — Paul Gibbons

The only power desirable is the grace to pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I notice where Death has been introduced, he frequently calls, making it desirable to forestall his advances. — Emily Dickinson

There's something desirable about anything you're to as opposed to something you're not. — John Steinbeck

The passage of time is likely to make high-speed rail more and more desirable, making it critical that politicians of today think ahead to tomorrow. — Anthony Albanese

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

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable? — HENRY MANNE

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. — Plutarch

It's nice to represent a woman who can be bigger than what you see as a typical skinny actress - being funny and desirable at the same time. — Kether Donohue

I think I'm just too desirable when I'm being creative, and I want to know what I need to do to lessen my attractiveness. If that's even possible. — Colleen Hoover

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare ... are to be found portrayed in it. — James A. Garfield

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

It is desirable to avoid trivial and evil company altogether - unless one can assert oneself fully, and thus make the other doubt his own position. — Erich Fromm

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be. — Natalie Portman

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining. — Gore Vidal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing. — George Bernard Shaw

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing. — Meg Cabot

A clear personal brand communicates what you have to offer and attracts desirable opportunities. — Don Maruska

The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind. — Todd William

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

He had not spoken to a desirable woman who was not at some level his enemy or a whore since 1944. — Michael Chabon

While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Religions understand that to belong to a community is both very desirable and not very easy. — Alain De Botton

Although it's admirable to be ambitious and hard-working, it's more desirable to be smart-working. — John C. Maxwell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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