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People leave when life becomes untenable where they are. -- Isabel Wilkerson
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. -- Orson Welles
Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable. -- Karen Mills
Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas. -- Kate Christensen
It appears that PepsiCo views structural change as a sign of weakness, an admission of failure, and an untenable break with past traditions. -- Nelson Peltz
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs. -- Steven Pinker
In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.' -- Stephen Colbert
There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do. -- Andrew Cuomo
This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. -- Florence Kelley
It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable. -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz
It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me. -- Susan Strasberg
Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time. -- Karel Capek
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy. -- Kit Bond
Feminists are in an untenable position, defending something they no longer believe in, and which history will force them to recognize was destructive of most of the central pillars of civilization. I'm just the first one to point it out publicly. -- Dave Sim
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. -- Immanuel Kant
Non-pantheist models for god seem almost completely untenable to me, though not without interest. -- Quentin S. Crisp
For any thinking person, it (perpetual happiness) is untenable. If you're a thinking person, your upbeat sometimes, said sometimes. -- Ron Suskind
With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning. -- Guy Debord
I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable. -- Ed Miliband
The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues. -- James Cromwell
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it. -- Mercedes Lackey
Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding. -- Sean M. Carroll

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