Undesirable Quotes

#1. It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

Grover Cleveland

#2. Fate can save you and it can kill you. Either way, fate binds us through an invisible web of circumstances. Change one undesirable fate and another desirable fate is canceled out.

Cassia Leo

#3. We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

David Willetts

#4. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua

#5. A vast deal of ingenuity is wasted every year in evoking the undesirable, in the careful construction of objects which burden life. Frankenstein was a large rather than an isolated example.

Agnes Repplier

#6. When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

John Owen

#7. I felt that even when they were polite they hardly saw me, that they would have begged the pardon of Jack the Bear, never glancing his way if the bear happened to be walking along minding his business. It was confusing. I did not know if it was desirable or undesirable ...

Ralph Ellison

#8. I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#9. Whenever in history, equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

Mary McCarthy

#10. Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.

Shelley E. Taylor

#11. Why pay for an undesirable outcome with someone else? For the same money, you could have paid me to stay at home and do nothing.

Jarod Kintz

#12. Focus upon the things that are desired rather than those elements that are undesirable.

Steven Redhead

#13. It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life.

James Joyce

#14. Daily life is an ongoing adaptation process of imprinting our memory's storage center with useful data and the ceaseless expurgation of undesirable facts, exfoliation of destructive thoughts, and weeding out annoying emotional quirks that seemingly sprout out of thin air.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats.

Archibald Marwizi

#16. It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.

Ivan Pavlov

#17. We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

Harry Markowitz

#18. Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's ... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

#20. Jude's desire for girls was indiscriminate feverish and complete he wanted them all equally and he wanted them not at all. Blondes and brunettes big ones or small ones - they were cold fragile impenetrable creatures all desirable as they were undesirable all perfumed and pretty.

Eleanor Henderson

#21. The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.

William Walker Atkinson

#22. As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

Evgeny Morozov

#23. Worry is unnecessary weight on the mind;
replace it with hope.
Fear is unneeded weight on the heart;
substitute it with love.
Hate is undesirable weight on the soul;
supplant it with God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#24. In fact, it struck me when we invaded last year that if we did it without European and East Asian support, we were risking losing our alliance in Europe in exchange for Iraq, and that is a very undesirable exchange.

William Odom

#25. There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.

Shashi Tharoor

#26. Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will of God.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#27. To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

Donald L. Hicks

#28. The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing.

Richard P. Gabriel

#29. Not until her parents came to visit did the McGraw clan, Caleb included, learn that Snow's father was half black, landing Snow squarely and immediately in the undesirable category.

Terri Osburn

#30. The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

John Dewey

#31. America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

Frank Zappa

#32. School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

Ivan Illich

#33. When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.

Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

#34. A howling corner in the winter time, a dusty corner in the summer time, an undesirable corner at the best of times.

Charles Dickens

#35. It is in the most undesirable of external circumstances that we discover internal qualities like courage, faith, compassion, inspiration, acceptance, and love.

Christine Hassler

#36. An undesirable society, in other words, is one which internally and externally sets up barriers to free intercourse and communication of experience.

John Dewey

#37. It was sad, tragic - and true! Heaven could not be what Ruby had been used to. There had been nothing in her gay, frivolous life, her shallow ideals and aspirations, to fit her for that great change, or make the life to come seem to her anything but alien and unreal and undesirable.

L.M. Montgomery

#38. Everyone should think about why certain undesirable situations occur in life

Sunday Adelaja

#39. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world. In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it.

Noam Chomsky

#40. You'll find you spend half your second year shaking off the undesirable friends you made in your first ...

Evelyn Waugh

#41. In a certain sense, it's harder for men to say no to sex than it is for women. When a woman says no, nobody's feelings are hurt. Men expect to be shot down. But when a man says no, the woman feels as if he's just said she's fat and undesirable. That makes him feel like a jerk.

Adelle Waldman

#42. I wanted to make the right decision, but that's the thing that nobody ever had the decency to explain to me: sometimes there is no correct path. There's only a path where you get slightly less fucked and it's a matter of picking which undesirable consequences you're better equipped to handle.

S. Hart

#43. An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable.

Neville Goddard

#44. Part of making life what you wish it to be is eliminating the unnecessary and the undesirable.

Steven Redhead

#45. That aversives stop behavior, they don't start it; and that fear and pain produce completely unpredictable and usually highly undesirable side effects, including being both exciting and reinforcing to the punisher. I have

Karen Pryor

#46. Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

Bertrand Russell

#47. Ignoring moralities is always undesirable, but doing so systematically is reallyworrisome.

Mohammad Khatami

#48. Congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.

Elizabeth Gould Davis

#49. We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Mark Twain

#50. My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Christopher Hitchens

#51. The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.

Cortney S. Warren

#52. Saying you "have" something implies that it's temporary and undesirable. Asperger's isn't like that. You've been Aspergian as long as you can remember, and you'll be that way all your life. It's a way of being, not a disease.

John Elder Robison

#53. Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding undesirable ones; or, if that's not possible, by filling your consciousness with thoughts about their less tempting aspects.

Jonathan Haidt

#54. Never accept an undesirable situation, even if achieving this has required a lot of effort.

Steven Redhead

#55. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.

Carl Sagan

#56. Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

S.A. Tawks

#57. To go from a familiar thing, however undesirable, into the unknown, is always a matter for apprehension, and I suppose that is why so many people are afraid to die.

Margaret Atwood

#58. There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Gregory Bateson

#59. It is important to grasp that boredom is one of the most common - and undesirable - consequences of 'unicameralism'. Boredom is a feeling of being 'dead inside'; that is to say, loss of contact with our instincts and feelings.

Colin Wilson

#60. Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the undesirable side effect of raising the natural rate of unemployment.

Paul Krugman

#61. It's a paradox that most parents would never let their children associate with an undesirable person in their neighborhood, but many think nothing of letting them associate with the same type every day on TV.

Randall Wright

#62. In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

Walter Lang

#63. I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.

Marissa Mayer

#64. When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho

#65. The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.

Gary Bauer

#66. When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.

William James

#67. Well, young man, the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that your home setting is undesirable ... you may return and desire with your mother at your home residents

Dave Pelzer

#68. My parents taught me that AIDS was a man-made disease designed to get rid of the undesirable people.

Kanye West

#69. Negative brands are the main reasons why your dreams become too hard to change shape. Negative brand can cake your dreams to take undesirable shape without permitting for remedy to be made.

Israelmore Ayivor

#70. The majority of American states had laws by the 1930s that allowed for forced sterilization of socially undesirable categories of people, so-called feeble-minded, for example, and with Hitler culminating in genocide.

Michael Sandel

#71. There is no necessity to preserver with undesirable situations; make what is into what it can be.

Steven Redhead

#72. To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.

Maajid Nawaz

#73. If you live far away from a person you no longer want to date just let them know that they are geographically undesirable.

Dane Cook

#74. With the cruel natural order that had made me simultaneously undesirable to men and unable to feel complete without one.

Hillary Jordan

#75. While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.

Jack E. Weller

#76. Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.

Kate Atkinson

#77. Altering our distressing emotions is an uphill battle. When you experience undesirable emotional outburst, try to alter the thought behind.

Assegid Habtewold

#78. Being a scrub was undesirable and hard work, living in crowded conditions with no privacy and just being one of many. Undistinguishable.

Maria V. Snyder

#79. I do not think there can be any defense for the view that knowledge is ever undesirable.

Bertrand Russell

#80. Our persona was not created by accident; it was created in order to camouflage the parts of ourselves we deemed the most undesirable and to overcompensate for what we believe to be our deepest flaws. What persona are you hiding behind?

Debbie Ford

#81. Encouraged by this recollection, I pick up my spear again, attack the weeds I did not invite to grow in my garden, and am left with this morning's one lesson: when something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the same courage mercilessly to pluck it out.

Paulo Coelho

#82. Calm and repose are what he prizes; victory (by force of arms) is to him undesirable.

Lao-Tzu

#83. One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

Adrian Cronauer

#84. Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality.

Archibald Marwizi

#85. Maggie in her crude form, with her hair down her back, and altogether in a state of dubious promise, was a most undesirable niece; but now she was capable of being at once ornamental and useful.

George Eliot

#86. The anticipated benefit must always outweigh the potential risk when an intervention is to be used. ...Proceeding with any intervention may produce undesirable results. Likewise, failing to intervene when it is called for can have dire consequences.

Anne Frye

#87. Nothing makes you get down on yourself and worry that you're undesirable like rejection, so having someone desirable desire you is the ultimate antidote.

Daria Snadowsky

#88. We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

Edward Abbey

#89. After all, it's woman, who decide, if a man is desirable or undesirable.

Candace Bushnell

#90. Grief is natural; the absence of all feeling is undesirable, but moderation in grief should be observed, as in the face of all good or evil.

Plutarch

#91. It is impossible, maybe undesirable, to take partisanship out of the political process.

David Souter

#92. The path of greatest desires often lies ... through the undesirable.

Rene Daumal

#93. Don't fool yourself, my dear. You're much worse than a bitch. You're a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

Ayn Rand

#94. Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#95. Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.

Abraham Maslow

#96. true acting out is an expression of intense underlying affects without conscious awareness of them, not just another undesirable and difficult patient behavior

James A. Chu

#97. I suppose I have very undesirable traits. I am very critical, which is very undesirable. But it is good from a business point of view.

John Caudwell

#98. A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put in this position by a letter from Mr. Bertrand Russell when the work was nearly through the press.

Gottlob Frege

#99. Our attitude towards plants is a singularly narrow one. If we see any immediate utility in a plant we foster it. If for any reason we find its presence undesirable or merely a matter of indifference, we may condemn it to destruction forthwith.

Rachel Carson

#100. Like physical pain, our psychological pain is an indication of something out of equilibrium, some limitation that has been exceeded. And like our physical pain, our psychological pain is not necessarily always bad or even undesirable.

Mark Manson