Operable Quotes

#1. No authentic conservative metaphysic can be operable when the discipline of God and the discipline of the soul have been ceded to the doxai, the dialectical structures and superstructures of modern life.

George A. Panichas

#2. The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition.

Naomi Wolf

#3. It was now so much a part of him, that it could not have been torn from him without destroying him almost entirely: as they say in surgery, his love was no longer operable.

Marcel Proust

#4. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Naomi Wolf

#5. This is not She-Thor. This is not Lady Thor. This is not Thorita. This is Thor. This is the Thor of the Marvel Universe. But it's unlike any Thor we've ever seen before.

Jason Aaron

#6. A man without words is a man without thought.

John Steinbeck

#7. Her beauty had always made it easy for her to break rules without reprisal.

Kristin Hannah

#8. Dreams do come true...never stop believing.

Josh Davis

#9. You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.

Elizabeth Strout

#10. The Stones were more dangerous than other bands of the Sixties. It looked like they had more fun than the Beatles - like they stayed up later.

Alex Lifeson

#11. I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.

Ziggy Marley

#12. I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

Ben Bernanke

#13. I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#14. There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments ...

John Irving

#15. It was not so difficult to understand the warped view the Azadians had of what they called "human nature" - the phrase they used whenever they had to justify something inhuman and unnatural

Iain M. Banks

#16. Tobin's just a guy - like a ton of guys. Even as I run those words through my head, trying to convince myself, I know it's a lie. Tobin will never be just a guy. Not to me. And he shouldn't be just a guy to anyone who meets him or to anyone else that's lucky enough to love him.

Jolene Perry