#desirable

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks. ↗

— Shelley Duvall

#comfortable #desirable #emotionally #go #i

The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#also #better #certain #condition #conditions

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#basically #conventional #culture #democracy #desirable

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the core of the medical approach is that you try to identify pathologies, which are subsystems within the human body or the larger system that are having undesirable consequences. ↗

— Guy Burgess

#body #consequences #core #everything #having

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

#business #desirable #fewer #less #many

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

— Mark Twain

#charm #desirable #forbidden #makes #unspeakably

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career? ↗

— Kim Cattrall

#botox #career #desirable #even #go

He liked to touch, she realized. In bed, he kept his arms around her or a hand on her like now. The way he played with her breasts, or just touched her, or ran his hands over her body, made her feel so...so beautiful, Desirable. ↗

— Cherise Sinclair

#desirable #sex #touching #beauty

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

#been #built #care #comparable #declared

It was both necessary and desirable for us to be so strong at sea that no Sea Power could attack us without risk, so that we might be free to protect our oversea interests, independently of the influence and the choice of other Sea Powers. ↗

— Bernhard von Bulow

#both #choice #could #desirable #free