The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Frank Herbert

The reclamation scheme is both feasible and desirable.
James Gadsden

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.
David Brainerd

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
Mark Twain

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Henry David Thoreau

There's a terrible truth for many women in the picture business: Aging typically takes its toll and means fewer and less desirable roles.
Maureen O'Hara

This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
Titus Livius

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.
Friedrich Durrenmatt

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
John McDonald

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.
Anthony Kiedis

When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi