Able Quotes

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

If many have their turns to rule, ... this will encourage all men to advance Righteousness and that the Commonwealth will hereby be furnished with able and experienced men, fit to govern.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

I still love doing that. There's nothing like being able to go back and play volleyball again with a team cause, I can have my volleyball in my New York apartment but we can't do so much there.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

If you are able to stop feeling sorry for yourself, and to contribute to the betterment of this world and of those around us, you will experience a high that is beyond my ability to express.

That's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

What power would Hell have if those imprisoned were not able to dream of Heaven?

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to understand that the behavior is wrong.

I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

Five years from now on the Web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

I am not one of those artists who is cemented in one way. I am able to, you know, make the happy, jovial, lighthearted music too. We need that in life too. So it's like that to me.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

All right-minded people adore it; and anyone who is able to live without it is unworthy to draw breathe

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

I might be able to find out what happened 6,000 years ago but I will never know what happens 6,000 years in the future! And that is not fair, blast it.

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.

Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.

Everytime we've had a misstep, rather than freaking out and not being able to recover, we've always looked to what's the next thing to do.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

Trust in the process you are now experiencing. Life is on your side. It is showing that to you now, though you may not be able to see it clearly at this time.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Each individual has their own unique color, which shines faintly around the contours of their body. Like a halo. Or a backlight. I'm able to see those colors clearly.