Top 133 Viable Quotes

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

I can’t stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.

I support Israel. And I have long supported a two-state solution and a democratic and secure state for the Jewish people, with a democratic and viable Palestinian state side-by-side in peace and dignity.

You don’t have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

The joke I always make is I’m either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

I defy anyone – and I have said this to the Germans – to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France’s consent.

When politicians talk of loan waiver, they are accepting that agriculture is not economically viable. They are giving a wrong signal that farming is not economically viable. It’s true. That’s where the loan waiver comes in.

The handwriting is on the wall: if you want to have your franchises viable, then you can’t have a situation where New York and Chicago and Los Angeles are doing very, very well, and some other teams are, but, I would say, a significant percentage of the teams in our league are struggling financially.

Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn’t happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.

Second only to a viable approach to acting, the most important thing an actor can find is a creative family. To have a solid core group of people that you take that journey with together is invaluable.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

The ‘Best of British’ is a positive thing that’s bandied around, but also it’s applied pressure to our country in terms of economic growth. I think we’ve always felt the rest of the world is so much more powerful in terms of being commercially viable, but we can take great pride in our level of creativity.

One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course.

The inventors we remember didn’t invent anything. They’re the people who took somebody else’s invention and made it commercially viable.

One thing I never thought about in my big-company job? Cash flow. When your business has billions of dollars in revenue, you can make a lot of mistakes and still have a viable business. But in a startup, make a few hiring mistakes, and you can find yourself in real jeopardy fast.

I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results.

I believe the absolute majority of Hongkongers have never felt that Hong Kong independence is a viable option.

I went to school for economics, and especially in Asian culture it’s not really a viable job for my family to be an artist.

When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, ‘It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.’

I see how these beautiful forests are now open to destruction because of technology. Companies are able to get into more and more remote places that weren’t economically viable before.

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there’s the other camp, where Judy is the one.

In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable – let alone a smarter – alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Doing a ‘Star Wars’ TV show could be prohibitively expensive because ‘Star Wars’ requires a lot of prop building and a lot of character building, so we wanted to – with ILM’s help – be able to make it a financially viable option to solve all the problems that you have with shooting a blue screen environment.

Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don’t. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I’m doing.

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

You know, Hillary Clinton’s always saying how Republicans don’t follow science? Well, they’re the ones not listening to the scientists today, because doctors say that at 20 weeks that is a viable life inside the womb. And at that point, it’s a life that we have the right to protect, and I think we should protect.

I completely believe in the lean startup and minimum viable product; I just I think that people are setting the threshold for minimum viable too low.

If you had to pay separately for just PBS, probably, sadly, not a majority of Americans would do that. So there’s many channels, whether it’s Discovery Channel or C-SPAN or many, many others, that just aren’t viable.

Refusal to engage with the Russian government is not a viable long-term foreign policy option for the U.K.

For me to make a living acting silly for as long as I can get away with it, I think the most viable way to make that happen is to evolve into more traditional comedy. I’ve really been putting in the work.

Everybody’s all up on the EDM bandwagon now, because it’s, like, another viable conduit for traditional pop music to ride for a bit so they can get out of their little stagnant pool and make a dance hit.

There comes a time when a human being has to either face evil or admit to allowing it. Abortion is legal in the United States, but it should not be celebrated or used as a political tool. Viable babies are human beings.

If you look at the Internet, it’s been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.

Efforts must be made to make BSP a viable alternative to form government in the state.

I didn’t study writing or drama or anything like that… that was not really a viable route for me.

I’m always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible.

The vast majority of doctors really do try to take the money out of their minds. But to provide the best possible care requires using resources in a way that keeps you viable but improves the quality of care.

My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make.

These women were taking over these former manufacturing warehouses in SoHo and figuring out a way to be fashionable and viable without money. It’s hard to imagine a life like that in Manhattan now – there’s something romantic about it.

During college, I collaborated with another YouTuber and musician, Shankar Tucker. He told me, ‘You can do music on YouTube and it’s a viable way to put out your songs’ and it worked out.

My job, and that’s my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don’t then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.

If I were to try to break into the world of modern dance, after the first few rejections the logical response might be, practice even more. But after the 12,000th rejection, maybe I should realize this isn’t a viable career option.

Industrial jobs are disappearing, and they will continue to disappear owing to productivity gains from automation. Thus, social models that were created to fit industrial and early service economies will no longer be viable. As the industrial workforce shrinks, the social model founded on it will go, too.

I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn’t really occurred to me as a viable job – I didn’t really know anything about it.

A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren’t a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.