Controllable Quotes

24 quotes by 23 authors

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and it is the organization and… — Ernest Nagel
We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have, not having what we want.… — David Icke
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll be okay. So, when this… — Gene Weingarten
When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to the surroundings. There are cliffs,… — Paulo Coelho
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a… — Brian Sutton-Smith
...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen… — James Roby
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded. — Stuart Kauffman
Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world. — Tullian Tchividjian
Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a system in which many parties,… — Evangelos Venizelos
It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system. — Philip E. Berger
I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. — June Jordan
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is… — George Orwell
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then? — George Orwell
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of… — John Robert Seeley
When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and… — Samantha Bond
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages. — Martha Beck
Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock… — Barry Ritholtz

Who Wrote These Controllable Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 24 Controllable Quotes as follows: