#liable

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#battle #body #her #love #though

Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest. ↗

— George Combe

#become #brain #brief #fatigued #i

We are far more liable to catch the vices than the virtues of our associates. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#catch #far #liable #more #our

It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation. ↗

— Auberon Herbert

#material #offers #only #owner #profitable

... I believe in some sense much akin to the belief of faith, that I noticed, felt, or underwent what I describe—but it may be that the only reason childhood memories act on us so strongly is that, being the most remote we possess, they are the worst remembered and so offer the least resistance to that process by which we mold them nearer and nearer to an ideal which is fundamentally artistic, or at least nonfactual; so it may be that some of these events I describe never occurred at all, but only should have, and that others had not the shades and flavors—for example, of jealousy or antiquity or shame—that I have later unconsciously chosen to give them... ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#memories #memory #unreliable-narrator #faith

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#better #chemical #continued #control #detailed

I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop. ↗

— John Legend

#favorite #get #i #i think #laptop

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. ↗

— Dan Rather

#big #came #country #entire #entire country

Terrorists also want to use simple and reliable arms. ↗

— Mikhail Kalashnikov

#arms #reliable #simple #terrorists #use