Intractable Quotes

43 quotes by 42 authors

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing. — Aldous Huxley
The presidential candidates are offering prescriptions for everything from Iraq to healthcare, but listen closely. Their fixes are situational and incremental. Meanwhile, the underlying structural… — Larry Sabato
My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using… — Shinya Yamanaka
Globalization could be the answer to many of the world's seemingly intractable problems. But this requires strong democratic foundations based on a political will to… — Sharan Burrow
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. — Thomas Nagel
To a novelist, fluidity is the ultimate good omen; suddenly difficult problems are simply solved, intractable structural knots loosen themselves, and you come upon the… — Zadie Smith
Resistance is implacable, intractable, indefatigable. — Steven Pressfield
The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to action. There are… — Melinda Gates
I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy. — Janeane Garofalo
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation.… — Muhammad Yunus
Truth is, I'm a good Catholic girl. The faith has always been elusive, but the guilt is intractable. — Janet Evanovich
Scramblers deactivated, then? Well here's some good news. You feel no pain. You will go straight to a hospital. Remember nothing of this place. And… — Joss Whedon
I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life. — Bette Davis
Impossible, I realize, to enter anotherâ€™s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small… — Paul Auster
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind… — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable. — Richard Gere
In countries with a properly functioning legal system, the mob continues to exist, but it is rarely called upon to mete out capital punishment. The… — Teju Cole
I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved. — Lucy Walker
Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible. — Russell Smith
I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable… — Malcolm Gladwell

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