Able Quotes

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

If you will make the sacrifices now that most people aren't willing to make, later on you will be able to live as those folks will never be able to live.

Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.

Hate is able to provoke disorders, to ruin a social organization, to cast a country into a period of bloody revolutions; but it produces nothing.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone.

Health care is an essential safeguard of human life and dignity and there is an obligation for society to ensure that every person be able to realize this right.

To have command of the air means to be able to cut an enemy's army and navy off from their bases of operation and nullify their chances of winning the war.

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

For you to have real love, you need to be able to move past your self.

I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations.

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.

I like being cheerful. Isn't it nice to be able to have fun and laugh while doing interviews?

During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Great acting is being able to create a character. Great character is being able to be yourself.

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub

I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.

When we started, we knew the show was going to be hit or miss, and we needed to find a core audience to really make us survive. And I think we've been able to do that.

Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike.

Part of knowing ourselves is also being able to accept who we are and to value ourselves regardless of our flaws. Accepting who we are allows us to value our worth without conditions or reservations.

To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today, we need to look at where we have come from.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

It affords me sincere pleasure to be able to apprise you of the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.

I was able to overcome this because of the fans who waited for me. I promise not to disappoint you anymore.

Best advice that I ever got is to do whatever it takes to make myself happy, so that I'll be able to make others happy. If I'm not happy, I can't make other people happy.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things.

I want to be able to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand.

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.

I go for really smart guys, ones who are well-read and can banter and argue. Men need to be able to take me out and have a few drinks, but by the end of the night we'll be talking about Nietzsche.

Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.

I feel that everyone who wants to say anything, do anything, should be able to say anything or do anything, within the limits of not hurting another person.

Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

I wasn't allowed to speak while my husband was alive, and since he's gone no one has been able to shut me up.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

When a man is able to take abuse with a smile, he is worthy to become a leader.

I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond.

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

It is my hope and my belief that you will be able to report that I died with dignity, without animal fear and without bravado. I owe that much to myself.

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.