#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

But I'll tell you something: We had a big family discussion about it recently, my two sisters and I, and I pointed out that we all have the same genes as our mother and we're all susceptible to becoming alcoholics. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#alcoholics #becoming #big #big family #discussion

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#i think #more #most #people #prejudice

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

I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when the emotions are still ragged and raw and susceptible to leaps. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#because #emotions #fog #i #i love

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#government #interests #mind #more #people