Begin by seizing something which your opponent holds dear…

If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on the point of marching to the attack,…

— Sun Tzu

In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally…

— Sara Seager

The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible…

— Patricia Hampl

Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing…

— George Berkeley

Babies just change everything. You have to become super-selfless and super-tired and super-amenable to change. They just change all the time.

— Neil Patrick Harris

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in…

— Isaac Asimov

Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.

— Barack Obama

We [ with Emilio Estevez] asked if we could take some things [ in Breakfast Club] that weren't in the shooting draft, but from…

— Judd Nelson

“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not pretend to…

— Flannery O'Connor

Like most young physicists, when I was a kid enraptured with physics, I thought, "Everything can be explained by the theory of the atom!"…

— Adam Frank

And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.

— Aristotle

I've been very lucky. Directors I've worked with have been very amenable to changes.

— Felicity Jones

And the Truth turns out to be nothing less than the amazing but undeniable fact that the whole outer world -whether it be the…

— Emmet Fox

In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the…

— Corinne Heline