Susceptible Definicion Quotes & Sayings

This closing chapter takes up three problems about authoritative reason giving that earlier chapters have raised but not resolved: what makes reasons credible, how people who work with specialized sorts of reason giving can make their reasons accessible to people outside their specialties, and what particular problems social scientists face when it comes to communicating their reasons, and reconciling them with the reasons that we as ordinary people give for our actions. Governmental commissions, we will see, offer just one of many ways to broadcast reasons. We will also see that the credibility of reasons always depends on the relation between speaker and audience, in part because giving of reasons always says something about the relation itself. — Charles Tilly

The ancients were afraid that if they went to the end of the earth they would fall off and be consumed by dragons. But once we understand that Christianity is true to what is there, true to the ultimate environment - the infinite, personal God who is really there - then our minds are freed. We can pursue any question and can be sure that we will not fall off the end of the earth. — Francis A. Schaeffer

A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground. — Abraham Lincoln

I see people as the nucleus of a great idea that hasn't come to be yet. — Richard Pryor

We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night. — Alexandra Bracken

My only day off is the day I pitch (in regards to how hard he works out during off-days). — Roger Clemens

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict. — Jonathan King

Having reached this conclusion, he had proceeded to woo Perry, flatter him - pretend, for example, that he believed all the buried-treasure stuff and shared his beachcomber yearnings and seaport longings, none of which appealed to Dick, who wanted "a regular life," with a business of his own, a house, a horse to ride, a new car, and "plenty of blond chicken. — Truman Capote

If you know how to handle the verbs, you know how to handle the language. Everything else is just vocabulary. — Michel Thomas

I would lose him a thousand lifetimes over if it meant I got the chance to love him a thousand times. And have him love me back.

If only for a little while. — A.J. Compton

For all his profanity and bedroom antics, though, Homer was a relative prude when it came to misbehaving on the page. — Jonathan Galassi

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return. — William Shakespeare