Desired Quotations

I feel in me the vocation of the Priest. I have the vocation of the Apostle. Martyrdom was the dream of my youth, and this dream has grown with me. Considering the mystical body of the Church, I desired to see myself in them all.

'What is your desired salary?' The unwritten rule when it comes to salary is this: whoever proposes a number first loses. When you interview, you should never feel pressured to answer this question. Simply let your interviewer know that the most important thing to you is how well you fit the position.

Let's face it: fitness is boring. But it's critical to be extremely dedicated to whatever you decide to take up to achieve a desired result. There's no way you are going to get there without dedication, which is the key for me.

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means.

For the record, I believe that women and their doctors should have access to oral contraception when desired by the patient and medically appropriate.

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons.

While I appreciated the educational advantages I enjoyed in the school and was proud of what I could show in mental culture, I had an earnest desire for something more than a mere business education... I desired to study for a profession, and this prompted me to leave my native state.

In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had in mind, he simply rewrote it. His English histories play fast and loose with chronology and fact to achieve the desired dramatic effect, re-ordering history even as it was then understood.

When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour Hoffman character in 'Almost Famous,' in my life, and there just wasn't. It was really frustrating for me because I desired that so much.

Hope is trust in God's promises, faith that if we act now, the desired blessings will be fulfilled in the future.

I see in Jesus matchless charms. I see in Him everything to be desired by the children of men.

Blue and green eyes will be so common that dark brown will become the rare and newly desired eye color.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

I would hate to see what the number of fatalities had been had we not had the special snowmobile patrols. We definitely had the desired effect, which was make people think, especially when they were drinking alcohol. We know people decided to not drive their snowmobile at night if they were drinking because of the team's presence.

Old age marketers like photo shoots and they believe in their intuition. But new age marketers believe their job is allocating assets in order to achieve desired business results, such as increasing revenue or customer retention. These are more likely to use technology to do that effectively.

I have desired to go / Where springs not fail, / To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail / And a few lilies blow,

If we can free up the puck carrier, I think we can create the excitement that the fans have desired for some time.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

To preserve and improve (these properties) is the desired outcome. We want Elkhart's neighborhoods to be attractive and welcoming. The primary focus is to improve the quality of life.

Knowledge makes a person famous and is helpful in achieving the desired goal.

Knowledge makes capable of earning knowledge. It inspires us to perform actions and as a result one acquires desired wealth.

I would strongly suggest that, while there is an obvious strongly desired sense to move rapidly, it's far more important to be right than quick,

From time to time in my metro column, to create the desired impact or slam home a salient point, I attributed quotes to people who didn't exist.

From all the ages my soul desired to take that soul-life which had flowed through them as the sunbeams had continually found an earth.

I expect AMD will sustain its server gains for the next year. Customers have desired a second source to Intel for years and AMD finally has a lead and a credible product road map.

If it were desired to reduce man to nothing, it would be necessary only to give his work a character of uselessness

What you see above is not simply sloppy polling; it's a direct manipulation of the survey to create their desired results. The voters in Houston deserve to know about these deceptive antics to manipulate these polls.

We told the computer program what performance the antenna should have, and the computer simulated evolution, keeping the best antenna designs that approached what we asked for. Eventually, it zeroed in on something that met the desired specifications for the mission.

If those who call themselves the Iraqi resistance desired to contact me, I would welcome them. I would not refuse to meet any Iraqi who wants to meet me. But of course that does not mean I will accept what he says.

There is a fine line between the amount required to create the desired effect and that which leads to a coma.

Some of the cheapest prices we found were at Wal-Mart, but product selection and presentation of the televisions at the discount retailer left much to be desired when compared to our experience at Best Buy and Circuit City.

I think the desired effect has happened here. I think community division was the intent from the beginning, because keep in mind there was nothing set in stone.

Over the quarter, our pro forma gross margins grew to nearly 35 percent, we generated positive cash flow from operations, and channel inventory remained within our desired range. And we have positioned the company to address broader market opportunities with innovative new products this fall and when the industry moves to a new growth phase.

Our goal, as reflected in our mission statement, is to help create a diversified, vibrant and sustainable economy through attraction and support of businesses meeting the vision and standards desired by city leaders. There is a whole lot to our department; we handle new business requests for information, answer questions about existing businesses and try to head people in the right direction to obtain the information they are looking for.

I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system.

I think that this is a case where the U.S. leaders involved are calculating the behind-the-scenes discussion, ... Pressure on Turkey is more likely to produce the desired result than a public bashing.

I think it's very reflective of (the fact) that the American dream is still what it was 100 years ago. What people wished for and desired is not any different today. (And) no matter where you come from, these desires are shared.

Mergers and acquisitions and start-ups are, in actuality, a form of market expansion. Therefore, growing the business in new, high-potential markets is clearly a desired outcome of using international assignments in Europe as a key staffing strategy.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

You can envision a whole range of minimally invasive surgical products that you could insert through a small hole in the body and have snap into a desired shape.

We are currently working on a more powerful modeling tool...to determine how one can generate a phase mask to produce a desired 3d structure. With this type of tool we will be able to more fully exploit the power of this patterning approach.

We want to be able to introduce a desired function into the proteins.

The facts and the record illustrate that Microsoft desired to structure a business relationship with Netscape that would bring benefit to our mutual customers.

While surging high imports likely allowed total U.S. gasoline stockpiles to start rebuilding in the week ended April 28, it may take time for depleted East Coast stocks to reach desired levels ahead of the peak summer driving months.

Usually, it takes between 10 and 20 layers to get the desired coating,

Creative power, is that receptive attitude of expectancy which makes a mold into which the plastic and as yet undifferentiated substance can flow and take the desired form.

We are building upon unprecedented regional confidence. We will be going to the market place very shortly to look to launch our next contract, which will naturally fit our sour crude oil contract and which has been strongly desired and recommended by the marketplace.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired -- but a required -- part of an American president's itinerary.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired - but a required - part of an American president's itinerary.

A trip to India is no longer just a desired but a required part of an American president's itinerary.

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

As soon as we put together our proposal, which will include what we are going to use the funds for, how we are going to repay it, the desired results and so on, we will go to the Ministry of Finance to have discussions on it. And once they sign off on it, we can then go to the financial institution.

The supply and demand is still strong for Portsmouth, ... Its a desired market, and the overall economy ... is performing well.

These countries must fulfill the conditions. In the eyes of our citizens, entry at the desired time can't be automatic.

The price controls appear like a sign of desperation... but I don't think they will have the desired results.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

With current gene therapy, it's possible to switch genes on and off, but you don't really know if you are affecting other parts and processes of the cell as well. You may be able to get a plant cell to produce a certain desired product, but the yield may drop significantly.

Rather than creating conditions that allow American workers to fill jobs at higher wages, what the president is proposing merely converts low wage illegal aliens into low wage workers with visas. Our economy would have to adapt if the influx of cheap foreign labor is ended, but that is an adjustment strongly desired by a majority of Americans, whether native-born or foreign-born. The concept that our economy must be served by a permanent under-class of foreign guest workers is reprehensible and unacceptable.

After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction.

The Porter Consulting team has been contracted to help UMR assess its current dining services and to determine the potential or feasibility of any identified, desired changes. In addition to this immediate assessment Porter Consulting will also be working with UMR to produce a medium to long range dining services master plan.

Science reveals the possibility of achieving all good, and sets mortals at work to discover what God has already done; but distrust of one's ability to gain the goodness desired and to bring out better and higher results, often hampers the trial of one's wings and ensures failure at the outset.

Space flight is years from being routine, or even a mode of transportation per se. Transportation refers to reaching a desired destination. Space flight, for the foreseeable future, will be an end in itself.

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

American concept cars from this romantic era are always among the most gorgeous vehicles at our events. Such history-making machines will be heavily desired with many individuals and museums vying to add them to their holdings. It will be interesting to see who ends up with these spectacular cars when the dust settles.

They're starting to have their desired impact. They are essentially reconnecting people to views they previously held about Stephen Harper, and that's easier than creating a whole new view of someone.

Saudi Arabia is concerned about last week's sharp price decline, but oil prices are still within OPEC's desired ($22-$28) price range,

Everything is now in place to launch definitive testing in mid-March. At that time we will be conducting two tests/demos with various government agencies and authorities. While we are disappointed in the scheduling delays, we are charting some new territory and we want to be assured that our system is operating to the exacting standards required to achieve desired results.

There's no transformation process that could bear the desired outcomes without women throwing their weight behind that change initiative, and the same holds for the nation-building process.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

This is an exciting time when you see the time and energy spent in planning coming together. All of the staff is excited about creating a new healthcare experience which focuses on the surgical outcome desired by the patient and surgeon.

In general, 50 percent of searches do not lead to the desired outcome. Does anybody not believe that the search experience is going to be dramatically better 10 years from now? Does anybody deny it would be nice to search within the enterprise and outside the enterprise?

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

In their haste, perhaps, to take a stand on the class-action question, my colleagues . . . show a new hostility to a long-recognized form of litigation, ... I am concerned that today's opinion sends a message that we, as a court, will employ different standards for cases coming out of the Fifth District on which national attention has been focused in order to reach a desired result.

Congresswoman (Shelley) Berkley shares the concern of the committee for the health and safety of miners in Nevada and across our nation. However, the implementation schedule for this new rule fails to take into account the lack of available technology needed to achieve the desired results.

The family desired that the matter be resolved without a trial. There's been enough trauma, misery and anguish already.

If you were to design a truly effective measure that would include a wide variety of factors that go into an examination of how police go about their jobs, you could, perhaps, achieve that end. But the analyses that we see come as a result of these kinds of efforts are crude and primitive. The goal is to achieve the desired result.

By practicing concentration the mind can be made stable. A stable mind helps in taking right decisions and achieving the desired result.

By the definition accepted in the United States, any person with even a small amount of Negro Blood... is a Negro. Logically, it would be exactly as justifiable to say that any person with even a small amount of white blood is white. Why do they say one rather than the other? Because the former classification suits the convenience of those making the classification. Society, in short, regards as true those systems that produce the desired results. Science seeks only the most generally useful systems of classification; these it regards for the time being, until more useful classifications are invented, as true.

An elections official who is directly accountable to the people will make the changes desired by the people and the public.

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advised the (witness) that he genuinely desired to attend a camp and strongly indicated in his final conversation with the (witness) that he had been accepted to 'training' and was going to attend the same after Ramadan in 2003.

Agencies should be able to accept bids from any company that can provide the desired product or service. Government earns the best value for taxpayer dollars through a competitive, transparent, and accountable bidding process.

The idea of pushing countries around isn't valid, it doesn't work. The U.S. has to produce products that are desired in other markets.

The EU-3 is comfortable with where things are in the sense that there is a process that has been put in place, and that process should be able to lead to the desired solution.

The England management have great confidence in Geraint Jones' batting. His wicket-keeping may leave a little bit to be desired but he does a job.

And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether, / And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land, / And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of his dominion.

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

For her this is a conflict of what she desired and what God wills, and she struggled over whether to obey God and her desire to keep her children.

There is no unit that is directly reportable to the Secretary of Defense for clandestine operations as is described in the Washington Post article. ... Further, the department is not attempting to 'bend' statutes to fit desired activities, as is suggested in this article.

It was a scandal. The truth is he (the referee) had his mind set against us - this was a desired elimination,

It's a detraction from her desired outcome. The focus should be on her commitment and appropriateness to the position.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it

In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.