Desirable Quotes - Page 16

• There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable.

  Penelope Lively

  Fashion, Believe, People

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

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• It is neither necessary nor desirable that national boundaries should mark sharp differences in standards of living, that membership of a national group should entitle to a share in a cake altogether different from that in which members of other groups share.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Cake, Differences, Membership

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Opposites, Promise, May

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• That there is little hope of international order or lasting peace so long as every country is free to employ whatever measures it thinks desirable in its own immediate interest, however damaging they may be to others, needs little emphasis now.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Country, Thinking, Order

  "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 15 : The Prospects of International Order, 1940 - 1943.

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• The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a long-lived-inhouse, it bursts its seams, is inconvenient, needs constant refurbishing. And some of the family resources have been spent. To attain the privacy that grown-up people find so desirable, Easterners live a harder life than people elsewhere. Today it is we and not the frontiersman who must be rugged to survive.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Home, Heart, America

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• Property is desirable as the ground work of moral independence, as a means of improving the faculties, and of doing good to others, and as the agent in all that distinguishes the civilized man from the savage.

  James F. Cooper

  Mean, Men, Independence

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• The goal in raising one's child is to enable him, first, to discover who he wants to be, and then to become a person who can be satisfied with himself and his way of life. Eventually he ought to be able to do in his life whatever seems important, desirable, and worthwhile to him to do; to develop relations with other people that are constructive, satisfying, mutually enriching; and to bear up well under the stresses and hardships he will unavoidably encounter during his life.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Children, Growing Up, Stress

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• I suggest people simply start off meditation by practicing twice a day for 5 - 10 minutes, and explore what it's like to meditate. The stress reduction and mental peace starts to become a highly desirable state. After all, it's great to let go of the worries of life!

  Tim McCarthy

  Letting Go, Stress, Worry

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• London is like a collection of hills. There are lots of desirable spots and lots of space in between. The idea of elbowing people out of your way to get somewhere - literally or metaphorically - seems foreign here.

  Vestal McIntyre

  Ideas, Space, People

  Source: roosterweathervane.tumblr.com

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• 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

  Nice, Typical, Actresses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't think that that's a desirable option for us. Besides, it wouldn't work, because there are too many other countries that are willing to work economically with China. But I don't think the basic relationship depends on economics. It depends on a political understanding of what is required for peace in Asia.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

  David Mitchell

  Believe, Faithful, Degrees

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

  Voltaire

  Common Sense, Interesting, Leader

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• The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

  Martha Beck

  Love Is, Special, Quality

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• The pursuit of joy in God is not optional.
  It is not an 'extra' that a person might grow into after he comes to
  faith. Until your heart has hit upon this pursuit your 'faith' cannot
  please God. It is not savng faith. Saving faith is the heartfelt
  conviction not only that Christ is reliable, but also that He is
  desirable.

  John Piper

  Heart, Joy, Saving

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

  John W. Campbell

  Reality, Ideas, Chance

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• In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

  Paul Johnson

  Race, Long, Earth

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• The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Eye, Men

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• I think I've grown up in an era where character acting on film has become less desirable for the producers and directors and therefore the audience. They have got used to the people that those actors really are.

  David Suchet

  Character, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It is desirable for Buddhist affairs to help civilian rule.

  Ye Xiaowen

  Buddhist, Helping, Affair

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• I might be old, but I'm still desirable.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Might, Stills

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In doing zazen it is desirable to have a quiet room. You should be temperate in eating and drinking, forsaking all delusive relationships. Setting everything aside, think of neither good nor evil, right nor wrong. Thus having stopped the various functions of your mind, five up even the idea of becoming a Buddha.

  Dogen

  Drinking, Thinking, Ideas

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• We have no paupers ... The great mass of our [United States] population is of laborers; our rich, who can live without labor, either manual or professional, being few, and of moderate wealth. Most of the laboring class possess property, cultivate their own lands, have families, and from the demand for their labor are enabled to exact from the rich and the competent such prices as enable them to be fed abundantly, clothed above mere decency, to labor moderately and raise their families. ... Can any condition of society be more desirable than this?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Class, Demand

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• 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.

  Naomi Wolf

  Erotic, Desire, Sexiness

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• Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is being achieved by imposing a false standard of what is and what is not desirable.

  John Berger

  Country, Majority, Today

  "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger, 1972.

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