Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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.
The most desirable aspects of the Law of the Sea Treaty pertain to navigational rights.
I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.
There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible.
In all matters moderation is desirable. If a thing is carried to excess, it will prove a source of evil.
There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.
I believe that style is the only real luxury,that is really desirable
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.
To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.
How desirable is this simplicity! Who will give it to me? I will quit all else; it is the pearl of great price.
While it will be desirable to achieve planned results, it will be even more important to avoid unplanned disasters.
We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is unemployment. People live for quitting time, for weekends, for vacations, and for retirement; moreover, this ambition seems to be classless, as true in the executive suites as on the assembly lines. One works not because the work is necessary, valuable, useful to a desirable end, or because one loves to do it, but only to be able to quit - a condition that a saner time would regard as infernal, a condemnation.
It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.
The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.
Talks with terror cannot happen, but talks on terror are desirable.
Other powers will continue to enjoy an equal right to trade in and develop the natural resources of the occupied territory, for the economic development of which the investment of foreign capital is very desirable.
The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.