It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

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.

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

Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition social milieu and personal character as possible.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law so much as for the right.

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

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

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.

Words matter especially words defining complicated political arrangements because they shape perceptions of the events of the past attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present and expectations about desirable directions for the future.

Projecting a persuasive image of a desirable and practical future is extremely important to high morale to dynamism to consensus and in general to help the wheels of society turn smoothly.

Pleasure and freedom from pain are the only things desirable as ends.

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.

Of two pleasures if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it that is the more desirable pleasure.

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

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe the practical with the desirable.

I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning number one I'm a mother and a wife and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create hopefully exquisitely beautiful desirable objects for my customer.

Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being for whom death is not only necessary but frequently even desirable.

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

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

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?