Desired Quotes

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary 'Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired,' which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.

After that, Kasparov stepped back from chess which is, and I want this to be clear, not good for chess in general at all. As a whole, the current situation in the chess world leaves a lot to be desired.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

This is our mercury, our lunary, but whosoever thinks of any other water besides this, is ignorant and foolish, never attaining to the desired effects.

I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

As a guest who doesn't eat, drink or smoke, you leave much to be desired, but as a writer, you're my girl.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

We provided complete protection to witnesses - right of attorney, right of record, right to cross-examine, and open hearing if they desired. Only Mr. Lane asked for an open hearing.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.