Tractable Quotes

#1. Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

Gerald Weinberg

#2. The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

Victor Hugo

#3. Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

Jonathan Weiner

#4. Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

George Washington

#5. Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Martin Rees

#6. Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

Samuel Johnson

#7. A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

Naomi Wolf

#8. The patients on Tuke Ward were a pleasant and tractable bunch and practised insanity with a certain elan.

Bill Bryson

#9. The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

Bernard De Mandeville

#10. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.

Lynne Truss

#11. Complacency and ignorance," Zebara suggested, pouring more brandy. "A very good way to keep a large population so tractable the society lacks rebellion." "But

Anne McCaffrey

#12. Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.

Stefan Kieszling

#13. Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

William Gurnall

#14. I work in public.

Martin Freeman

#15. God save him, she smelled of a field of roses and tasted sweeter than port wine.
Drawing her hands over her mouth Charlotte gasped. "Hugh. How did we end up on the bed?"
"I think we must have floated," he whispered.

Amy Jarecki

#16. I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

Talib Kweli

#17. A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

Elizabeth I

#18. I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

John D. Long

#19. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.

Marie Antoinette

#20. And although college-age people might enjoy having a ministry specifically designed for them, there is a much greater desire to be a part of our churches as a whole. This deeper connection is what's often missed.

Chuck Bomar

#21. I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum.

Ornette Coleman

#22. Megan looked at me and blushed. A blush looked really good on her. Of course, so would soup, mud, or elephant earwax. Megan on a bad day outshined anyone else I'd ever known.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.

Sasha Grey

#24. Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

L.M. Montgomery

#25. There is no true healing unless there is a change in outlook,
peace of mind and inner happiness

Edward Bach

#26. Things were not as they seemed. The known world was shifting, reforming. Everything he'd taken as a given, a fact, as real and unquestioned, had fallen away. But

Louise Penny