Untenable Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to… — James Cromwell
How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure.… — Albert Einstein
But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable.… — William Bayliss
I am convinced that both markets and free trade are good, but the traditional answer that we give to students to explain why they are… — Paul Romer
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions,… — Anthony Burgess
If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. — Guy Debord
It is pointless to get your knickers in a twist if a certain person fails to react the way you want. It is best to… — Stuart Wilde
Even originally well-defined pencils of cathode rays from the Sun cannot reach the Earth. For Birkeland's theories to be correct, the existance of such cathode… — Arthur Schuster
Humanity is looking for a new story. The one it has embraced since the Renaissance is no longer viable. Despite all of its positive contributions… — Edmund Bourne
At issue is not whether the global economy will pass away. It is passing away. Rising populations and debt combined with depletion of freshwater sources… — Daniel Suarez
For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes. — Ron Suskind
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. — Immanuel Kant
I would construct and work along various lines until I found them untenable. When one theory was discarded, I developed another at once. I realized… — Thomas A. Edison
The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out… — Christopher Bond
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are. — Isabel Wilkerson
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. — Karen Mills
When a man does not live with his children and does not get along with the mother of his children, his fatherhood becomes essentially untenable,… — David Blankenhorn

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