Corrigible Quotes & Sayings

Tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which
our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up
thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or
distract it with many, either to have it sterile
with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our
wills. If the balance of our lives had not one
scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the
blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us
to most preposterous conclusions: but we have
reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that
you call love to be a sect or scion. — William Shakespeare

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars. — Guy Kawasaki

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible. — John Stuart Mill

They have rights who dare maintain them. — James Russell Lowell

So much in life came down to timing. — Kate Morton

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it. — Joseph Addison

Go huge or why bother? — Julie Connor

I don't think I have what it takes to make a good action game. I think I'm better at telling a story. — Hironobu Sakaguchi

The best we can do, according to Bradley, is to say things that are 'not intellectually corrigible' - further progress is only possible through a synthesis of thought and feeling, which, when achieved, will lead to our saying nothing. Ideas have degrees of truth, greater or less according to the stage at which they come in the dialectic. — Bertrand Russell

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana

What you call pride, I call courage. — Jeff Zentner

What's troubling is that because the camera is 3D, the northern part of the screen isn't necessarily north anymore. So the jungle transforms into the true meaning of a jungle. For someone with no sense of direction like myself, I get lost in the caves every time. — Hideo Kojima

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important. — Neko Case

Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world."
"And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe. — Jules Verne