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  • With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of altogether, if that were desirable. They have a hold on public opinion, which alone would make it expedient to aim rather at the improvement, than the suppression of them. As now generally constituted, their advantages whatever they be, are outweighed by the excesses of their paper emissions, and the partialities and corruption with which they are administered.

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

    Cute   Guy   Pet  
    "Biography: Natalie Portman". www.thecinemaholic.com. January 20, 2018.
  • 13.5 Mrs. Wolfe asks whether Mr. Iqbal expects her Susan to undertake compulsory headstands. 13.6 Mr. Iqbal infers that, considering Susan's academic performance and weight problems, a headstand regime might be desirable.

    Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.107, Vintage
  • Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.

  • The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

    Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик
  • ...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

    Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2015). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.16, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.

    Real   Writing   Thinking  
    In R. Lehmann et al. Orion I (1945) p. 25
  • Loneliness isn't about being by yourself. That's fine, right and good, desirable in many ways. Loneliness is about finding a landing-place, or not, and knowing that, whatever you do, you can go back there. The opposite of loneliness isn't company, it's return. A place to return.

  • We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

    Balance   Littles   Way  
  • They tell us sometimes that if we had only kept quiet, all these desirable things would have come about of themselves. I am reminded of the Greek clown who, having seen an archer bring down a flying bird, remarked, sagely: 'You might have saved your arrow, for the bird would anyway have been killed by the fall.'

    Fall   Archer   Arrows  
  • When someone new comes into your life and suddenly you feel more alive, more beautiful, more sexual, more creative, more desirable and more engaged; you feel that this new person is the key to those feelings. But actually, you have these qualities too. What you don't see and don't acknowledge in yourself, you project onto someone else. Carl Jung explored this very well. He called it projection.

    Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.
  • I think maybe that as time goes by there will be more newness but because I was part of what it was before it's not like coming into a house and saying it's all about me. I don't feel like that. It really is all about McQueen and the things that he was trying to say and about moving that forward, making it relevant, making it desirable, making it into what people want to wear.

  • I wish the constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable.

    Believe   Doors   Perfect  
    George Washington, Jared Sparks (1847). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. III. Private letters from the time Washington resigned his commission as commander-in-chief of the Army to that of his inauguration as president of the United States: December, 1783-April, 1789”, p.266
  • 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.

    Stars   Actors   Want  
    "Is Hollywood turning on Angelina Jolie?". www.today.com. November 11, 2009.
  • It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted.

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

    History   Age   Might  
    Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186
  • We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.

    Home   Mind   Important  
  • Sexiness is no longer defined just as whether we are desirable, but also what we desire. The more liberated women become - economically, politically, and personally - the more erotic we are. Freedom is a lot sexier than dependency.

  • Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

    William Lyon Phelps (2016). “Happiness”, p.16, Read Books Ltd
  • Effort and work can become fun when you establish specific desirable goals.

    Fun   Goal   Effort  
    Source: www.barnesandnoble.com
  • It has to be admitted that, in a sneaking way, although he hated the discomfort of seasickness, once he was over it, he enjoyed the attention and sympathy that it created among attractive young women like Evanlyn and Alyss. And he liked the fact that Will tended to walk on eggshells around him when the problem was mentioned. Keeping Will off balance was always desirable. ~Halt

    Balance   Attention   Way  
  • Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.52, Vintage
  • There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

    Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.310
  • Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful.

    Real   Two   Tools  
  • It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • The Free Exercise Clause protects the individual from any coercive measure that encourages him toward one faith or creed, discourages him from another, or makes it prudent or desirable for him to select one and embrace it.

  • Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.

    Children   Hug   Praise  
  • Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

    Real   Men   Two  
    Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.126, Book Tree
  • [He was aware] of the value of the word of praise dropped at exactly the right moment; and he would have thought himself extremely stupid to withhold what cost him so little and was productive of such desirable results.

    Stupid   Cost   Littles  
  • Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

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