#susceptible

In England, it's a rare thing to see a player smoking but, all in all, I prefer that to an alcoholic. The relationship with alcohol is a real problem in English football and, in the short term, it's much more harmful to a sportsman. It weakens the body, which becomes more susceptible to injury. ↗

— Alex Ferguson

#alcoholic #becomes #body #england #english

Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and is susceptible of being corrected and improved. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#being #character #constituent #corrected #dependent

The fun is in figuring out why the French are susceptible to such tripe. ↗

— Bill O'Brien

#french #fun #out #such #susceptible

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. ↗

— Brian Eno

#dangerous #erupt #evaluation #feelings #grow

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. ↗

— Derek Bailey

#circumstances #much #music #playing #really

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#animal #discovery #guinea #guinea pig #i

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#far #formed #man #mind #more

Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure. ↗

— Alvin Adams

#different #diplomacy #enterprise #failure #hence

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#good #good and bad #more #perfect #susceptible

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#eroding #kinds #makes #more #paradoxically