Desired Quotes

No doubt, unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed by mere declarations.

He hath desired to bring the souls of other men to heaven; let his soul be brought to heaven.

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.

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

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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 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.

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 am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

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.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

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

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

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.

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

No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.

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.

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

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.

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.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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

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.

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.