I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Don't say 'wife. ' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable….
A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity.
When I say "The good man gave his good dog a good meal," I use "good" analogically, for there is at the same time a similarity and a difference between a good man, a good dog, and a good meal. All three are desirable, but a good man is wise and moral, a good dog is tame and affectionate, and a good meal is tasty and nourishing. But a good man is not tasty and nourishing, except to a cannibal; a good dog is not wise and moral, except in cartoons, and a good meal is not tame and affectionate, unless it's alive as you eat it.
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull. . . original, but never self-conscious. . . imaginative, but never misleading.
Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.
Culturally we don't allow women to be as free as they would like, because that is frightening. We either shun those women or deem them crazy… But being that woman who pushes the boundaries means you also bring in less desirable aspects of yourself. At the end of the day, women are expected to hold up the world, not annihilate it.
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
Ethical systems and practices need to look good. They have to be desirable, well-designed and work well.
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.
Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?
It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.
You can develop any habit or thought or behavior that you consider desirable or necessary.
Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because they are desirable in themselves. The common resistance to the collectivist tide should not be allowed to obscure the fact that the belief in integral freedom is based on an essentially forward-looking attitude and not on any nostalgic longing for the past or a romantic admiration for what has been.