Manageable Quotations

Because microfinance is so manageable in terms of the size of the loan, people have made it the cornerstone to lifting women out of poverty.

Back in 1982, when there were still only a manageable number of 'X-Men' titles on the racks (by which I mean just one), Marvel quite reasonably figured the world could stand another team of beleaguered mutant superheroes. And so were born 'The New Mutants,' junior X-Men whose powers had just begun to manifest at the onset of puberty.

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

The reason inflation was brought down to manageable levels, by the time of Ronald Reagan's re-election, was directly attributable to Jimmy Carter's very courageous act, hiring a Federal Reserve chair, with the charge to induce a recession. That recession was probably the reason he didn't win a second term.

I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.

I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.

Moody's Investors Service recently upgraded the underlying rating from A3 to A2 on the District's outstanding debt - without the PSF guarantee. Factors contributing to the upgrade included healthy tax base growth, well-managed finances despite operating at the maximum allowed tax rate for maintenance and operations for several years, and manageable debt ratios.

I don't know that we'll see those high prices again for the foreseeable future, and we're into a sideways price trend now. Though prices are higher than in early 2003, they're definitely down to much more manageable levels.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Furthermore, bigger cable operators such as Comcast, vertically integrated Time Warner or well-clustered Cablevision, with relatively manageable spectrum constraints, are likely to face relatively minimal DTV or retransmission consent exposure.

Chinese government's goal over the reform of foreign exchange rate system is firm, continual, manageable and active,

Splitting it into two units will create a more efficient and manageable structure. It will allow the company to focus on specific sectors and target growth areas.

NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.

I thought it was a real tough way to start out a road game. We could never totally get our game into it. They obviously played the better home game then we did the road game. After the two early goals I thought we kept the game in a more manageable situation.

I think the whole liability situation becomes manageable for Merck.

Overcrowded, multilingual, schools will not become manageable because the kids are suddenly the children of guest workers, instead of illegal aliens. Millions of unskilled laborers will not magically become high-earning taxpayers because they have work visas. State budget crises will not be alleviated, housing will not become more affordable, traffic will not become less congested, and middle class jobs will not become more plentiful if we give everyone who is here, or who wants to come here, a piece of paper that says they're legal.

Virtualization helps customers overcome the physical boundaries and underused capacity of IT systems, and is a key stepping stone for customers to increase operational efficiency and become more dynamic and responsive to business needs. Microsoft is working closely with AMD to help open the way for a new class of innovation, to make IT systems not only more cost-effective, but also more secure, manageable and interoperable.

We have a marketable, manageable resource, and it's going to waste.

Most borrowers have some financial cushion so the impact won't be immediate; spending an extra $380 is manageable at first. But it's safe to say there are some who will find themselves in budgetary difficulties a year or two down the road.

We did pack them for a manageable score, but lost track by playing some poor shots but such things happen in one-day cricket.

Once we start shooting, it's in there. You're trying to get into a place where you rise to the work, rather than make it manageable or make it work for you.

We are on the brink ... and anyone who thinks the political situation is manageable at this rate of economic deterioration is going to be shocked.

We're not taking the worst part, because we'd just be beating our head against a wall. But we're not going to take the best part or we're wasting our time. Let's work on something manageable that needs help.

There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.

We as a company believe that by a couple of years from now spam will be down to a very manageable trickle ... it will be almost an afterthought.

We can take what is a crisis now and make it a manageable nuisance.

We weren't able to find a flow until it was over. Last week, defense kept us in the game. But a 10-0 deficit (last Wednesday against Penn State) is more manageable than 28-4.

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

Left to ourselves we tend immediately to reduce God to manageable terms.

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

We factored in the possibility of something like this happening. This news is manageable and does not alter our fundamental belief in Guidant's long-term potential, which is significant and very much intact.

We started out slow on offense, but I thought our defense held us in. It could have been a 20-point quarter, but we held them to 8. We played a lot better in the second quarter. We loosened up and got it down to a manageable deficit. It was only four a halftime.

Yes, damage has been considerable, but our eyes are attracted to the broken or blown-over trees. In most forests, there may still be undamaged and manageable trees.

We were extremely pleased with the quantity and quality of business plan summaries we received for consideration and we were challenged to narrow the field to a manageable number to accommodate the logistics of the fair. Each of the presenting companies has a compelling business plan and we expect to see angel investors giving a good, hard look at each of these deals during the Angel Fair.

The situation in Bosnia is such that a safe withdrawal of American forces can be made effective. The scale of the problem is now such that it is entirely manageable by the Europeans.

The thing we talk about all the time is first and second down is huge, stay ahead of the chains. Don't be third-and-8, third-and-10; be third-and-4 or less. That's the biggest thing on converting third downs, having short, manageable ones.

Butler Group's findings show the maturity, functionality and market presence of today's ALM solutions. Being named to the Outperform category across all phases shows the success we're seeing in the ALM space and is a testament to why organizations are choosing Borland to help make software delivery a more predictable, efficient and manageable business process.

Now it's time to pay the piper and get this deficit back down to more manageable levels, and I believe the president's budget will address these issues,

People rush around in the summer to try and find like-minded musicians to put together. Packages are all the rage. I prefer keeping it smaller, having a tour that's manageable -- both for me and the audience -- and Rufus and I go together in certain ways. We're both out of step with any kind of music scene. We don't really fit in anywhere. I think we feel similarly disenfranchised -- in a good way. Also, I can listen to Rufus every night. That's important.

O'Sullivan emerges from Chapter 11 with new ownership, a very manageable debt load, leaner more efficient operations and a renewed focus on our customers and consumers. O'Sullivan has had its challenges in the past, but we are now poised to drive sales and profitability for O'Sullivan and our key customers through innovations in design, assembly, merchandising, advertising and promotions.

We got it to a manageable margin near the end of the half once we got out of the shock mode. But Trinity really cranked up the defense. We're just not strong at the guard position and they (Trinity) just overplay so strongly. It was difficult.

The United States wants a manageable status quo. It doesn't want to see things out of control.

I'm convinced that what we're doing here today ? if there is another Katrina that hits New Orleans that we would not see the catastrophic results that we saw during Katrina. There will be some flooding, but it will be manageable type flooding.

I have used babysitters from ages 12 to their mid 30s. Usually, if I have a younger sitter, it is for an evening event when I can have one or two of my children already put to bed before the sitter comes. I find this makes the job much more manageable for young or first-time sitters.

In talking to the industry, people are fairly confident this is a manageable situation.

Damage assessments are forthcoming but early views are very optimistic, ... Unconfirmed secondary sources report that the center has suffered minor window breakage and wind damage. Water damage is limited to two halls and is very manageable at this time.

It's very helpful if parents have some sort of calendar that is large enough and is posted in a prominent place. In one color you have written when the science fair project is due. And then you backtrack from that date breaking down that science fair project into manageable chunks of time. Great big projects tend to scare kids.

I really felt like when we got the game manageable and had the opportunity to score in some situations, we just didn't execute. You have to be able to execute against a team like this.

If you stay out of third-and-longs, they can't do a whole lot. So hopefully we can win first down and win second down and keep ourselves to manageable third downs.

California cannot continue to sustain skyrocketing housing prices that have ballooned over the last few years. The industry has been moving at a torrid pace to keep up with demand, but we expect prices will finally level off to a manageable level.

'Game of Thrones' is taking dense novels and trying to shrink it all down to a slightly manageable series in the sense that there are so many characters and so many locations.

The yields indicate that markets aren't concerned about inflation or that they're confident that the Fed is on the job and will contain it. But there's some sort of subconscious, collective belief that sustained manageable inflation is too good to be true and eventually the other shoe will drop.

They kept the ball almost the entire third quarter. Our kids kept fighting, and we were able to get them into a manageable fourth down.

The crude situation is less serious and more manageable than that of refineries. It all depends on how water affected refineries in the area.

The goal is to make the issue less intimidating, and point them in the right direction. We have broken down complex and cumbersome concepts into manageable action steps.

It's not our goal to wipe out piracy entirely. It is our goal to bring it to a level of manageable control -- just as our industry has lived with physical piracy on the street for a number of years.

It is still manageable in terms of the contracts we have to fulfill, but if it goes on for more time, the effect could become much more serious.

I don't want to tempt fate, but I feel like I'm myself again. Absolutely back. And now I have a kind of just manageable bunch of jitters that I wouldn't want to be without.

I do not know. She has a much more manageable situation there now and we are not trying to strong-arm the situation.

Anything mentionable is manageable.

the more we are focused on controlling and changing others, the more unmanageable our life becomes. The more we focus on living our own life, the more we have a life to live, and the more manageable our life will become.

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first - a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.