Top 30 Desirability Quotes

#1. The value of their money was imaginary. Like the nature of the universe itself, the desirability of their American dollars and yen was all in people's heads.

Kurt Vonnegut

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#2. Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.

Thomas Merton

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#3. I never realised that the downside of getting to know a woman before I screw her is the possibility that I might not want to screw her after I know her. That a personality could have such a devastating effect on desirability. It's depressing. My whole worldview is blown to bits.

Emma Chase

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#4. Our family car was the antithesis of designs and desirability. It was like driving Hitler's moustache.

Samantha Bee

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#5. Before venturing on so large an undertaking as is involved in the task I had set myself I consulted a number of distinguished scholars as to the desirability of such a series.

James Loeb

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#6. Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.

Ambrose Bierce

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#7. TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.

Ambrose Bierce

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#8. Talent equaled desirability. Talent trumped good looks or a halfway decent personality. Talent was a personality.

Meg Howrey

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#9. If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

Friedrich Hayek

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#10. In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value

Amelia Jones

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#11. The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

Robert C. Solomon

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#12. I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Toni Morrison

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#13. Bottom dogs have to be persuaded of the desirability of inequality.

William Donaldson

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#14. You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things like throws at you to attain it.

Michael Hyatt

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#15. Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Tom Stoppard

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#16. Those who would transform a nation or the world cannot do so by breeding and captaining discontent or by demonstrating the reasonableness and desirability of the intended changes or by coercing people into a new way of life. They must know how to kindle and fan an extravagant hope.

Eric Hoffer

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#17. Sexuality, desirability has nothing to do with body type. It has to do with how you feel from within. I was at my fattest best in 'The Dirty Picture,' and I was called the most desirable. So there you go. I am quite well-endowed, so I have no complaints.

Vidya Balan

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#18. Ah! Yes, the truth, that ingenious concoction of desirability of appearance.

Anatole France

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#19. I have made believe so long that now I am quite sincere in my conviction that we can see pretty much whatever we look for; which should prove the desirability of searching for amusement and profit rather than for boredom and disillusion.

Gelett Burgess

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#20. If there is one thing in which I hold complete confidence, it is the conviction of my own desirability.

Anne Elisabeth Stengl

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#21. Thus painting itself had to be able to demonstrate the desirability of what money could buy. And the visual desirability of what can be bought lies in its tangibility, in how it will reward the touch, the hand, of the owner.

John Berger

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#22. Utopia's value lies not in its relation to present practice but in its relation to a possible future. Its "practical" use is to overstep the immediate reality to depict a condition whose clear desirability draws us on, like a magnet.

Krishan Kumar

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#23. Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Caroline Knapp

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#24. I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desirable Man of 2012. Frankly, I have no idea how the desirability quotient is arrived at. If it is just drop dead good looks, then I have to thank God and my parents for it.

Arjun Rampal

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#25. Popularity is a mathematical formula based on desirability criteria. High schools are a classic anthropological case study, and getting people to respond in the way you want is psychology. All science. It's just not the type of science that you're used to.

Eileen Cook

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#26. Pull power is essential to reach our goals. You need to see a future with such clarity and desirability that you will go through all the uncomfortable things life throws at you to attain it. A

Michael Hyatt

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#27. We knew that in general the quality of treatment we received in the training class varied inversely with the desirability of the job held by the speaker. In this there was a lesson: To get the best job, you had to weather the most abuse.

Michael Lewis

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#28. I think a certain kind of sexism is so matter-of-fact, and has been for so long, that young women feel less valuable or second-tier if their gender and attractiveness or sexual desirability are not being commented on in the workplace.

Cris Mazza

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#29. A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

Helen Fisher

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#30. You can't rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.

Lupita Nyong'o

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