Quotes About Manageable

The invention of ethical and political doctrines, which blossomed into our own social sciences, is a product of times when things appeared manageable. The same goes for the criticism of those doctrines, though as a voice from the past, this criticism proved prophetic.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

In India the choice could never be between chaos and stability, but between manageable and unmanageable chaos, between humane and inhuman anarchy, and between tolerable and intolerable disorder. ASHIS NANDY, sociologist, 1990.

The rat race of such predation and usurpation is a restlessness that issues inescapably in anxiety that is often at the edge of being unmanageable; when pursued vigorously enough, moreover, one is propelled to violence against the neighbor in eagerness for what properly belongs to the neighbor.

Do not attempt too much at once.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say.

It is so much easier to deal with the dead than with the living. The dead are out of the way, merely characters from stories about the past, never again unreadable, no misunderstandings possible, the pain coming from them stable and manageable. nor do you have to explain yourself to them, to justify the fact of your life.

The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son's age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable.

I think I'm pretty coachable. I do what coaches ask of me.

At somewhere around 10 syllables, the English poetic line is at its most relaxed and manageable.

It is still so easy to forget that addiction is not curable. It is a lifelong disease that can go into remission, that is manageable if the one who is stricken does the hard, hard work, but it is incurable.

If you're well-prepared, you know what you're doing, and you have an idea what the opponents can do - what their strengths and weaknesses are - once you get into the game, those adjustments will be - I won't say easy, but relatively easier and more manageable.

He was determined to take responsibility but he was just a cog. She'd seen that many times before. It was a belief often borne of a traumatic childhood, it was so much more manageable to believe himself bad than the world.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

If you know your destination, choosing a route - while not trivial - is manageable.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

The fear of the drugs running out is manageable-the fear of time running down isn't.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

I'd say that in place of a singular phobic-level terror, I keep a whole collection of running, yet manageable, fears.