Desirable Quotes
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There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain -
Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.
Mohnish Pabrai
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
Plotinus -
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.
Fairfax Cone -
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus -
My view is that it is desirable to be both loved and feared; but it is difficult to achieve both and, if one of them has to be lacking, it is much safer to be feared than loved.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
Aristotle
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
Abraham Lincoln -
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
Brian Tracy -
[Nuclear war]... may not be desirable.
Edwin Meese -
Imagine no limitations; decide what's right and desirable before you decide what's possible.
Brian Tracy -
Any habit may be discontinued by building in its place some other and more desirable habit.
Napoleon Hill -
If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected.
Abraham Lincoln
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Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Then as in so many periods, notoriety was more desirable for a politician than obscurity.
Adrian Goldsworthy -
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
Anne Reeve Aldrich -
You attract the good and desirable with positive mental attitude. You repel them with negative mental attitude.
W. Clement Stone -
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 -
Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.
Aristotle
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Knowing that there is no future that is possible or desirable, I experience the solace one feels on going back to sleep when the alarm clock has sounded.
Arthur Cravan -
I might be old, but I'm still desirable.
Sebastian Horsley -
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.
Andre Heller -
I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No
Catherynne M. Valente