#desired

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

— Thelma Ritter

#drink #eat #girl #guest #leave

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

— Curt Siodmak

#desired #experience #man #more #often

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. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

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

— Abdus Salam

#comprehend #concepts #desired #elementary #few

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

— Sitting Bull

#first #great #great spirit #had #made

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. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#bitter #cannot #coming #desired #dreadful

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. ↗

— Martha Graham

#again #desire #desired #face #faith

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

— Norman Douglas

#dying #living #sublimity #things #those

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

— Harold S. Geneen

#achieve #american #american companies #because #companies

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance. ↗

— James Otis

#before #books #concerning #consider #court