Plausible Quotes (page 2)

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• missing
• watch
• wellness

We live in time - it holds us and molds us - but I never felt I understood it very well. And I'm not referring to theories about how it bends and doubles back, or may exist elsewhere in parallel versions. No, I mean ordinary, everyday time, which clocks and watches assure us passes regularly: tick-tock, click-clock. Is there anything more plausible than a second hand? And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time's malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it... Julian Barnes

• true
• the problem with
• non-fiction

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction. Tom Wolfe

• consistency
• science
• insulting

The social function of economic science consists precisely in developing sound economic theories and in exploding the fallacies of vicious reasoning. In the pursuit of this task the economist incurs the deadly enmity of all mountebanks and charlatans whose shortcuts to an earthly paradise he debunks. The less these quacks are able to advance plausible objections to an economist’s argument, the more furiously do they insult them. Ludwig von Mises

• life
• true
• enough

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. Luigi Pirandello

• simple
• explanation
• wrongfully

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are! H. G. Wells

• perfect
• world
• sometimes

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all Nikolai Gogol

• heart
• evening
• people

After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble. Richard Russo

• proposal
• invented
• actionable

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative. Charles Edward Merriam

• new
• look
• technology

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. Ralph Merkle

• criticize
• prejudices
• criticism

Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken

• always
• neat
• wrongs

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken

• limitations
• doings
• certain

What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible. Arthur Golden

• gradualism
• rang
• damaged

The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging. Timothy Geithner

• life
• thinking
• accounting

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life. Antonia Fraser

• door
• rightfully
• districts

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions. Caleb Cushing