Able Quotes

What is difficult? To keep a secret, to employ leisure well, to be able to bear an injury.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I am focused, organized, and easily able to honor the priorities that need my attention.

I'm not surprised that Spielberg was able to capture the heroism of Schindler; so many of his movies are about the better part of mankind.

The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

Being able to do something that's never been done before, that's what I've always wanted to do. . . . There was nothing that was going to stand in my way of being the first.

Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

I will continue to get behind the wheel of a racing car as long as I am able. But that could all end tomorrow.

We're going to see passengers in space stations in 15 years, who will be able to buy a ticket and spend a weekend in space.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.

When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.

It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended

The good part about being famous is being able to help people. The hard part is every day you have to be in a good mood, because that is what people expect. You learn to get good at it.

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

Even in the forty years that I have been practicing Karate, the changes have been many. It would be interesting to be able to go back in time, to the point when the kata were created, and study them.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.

If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

To be able to shut off your emotions drastically, I think that the only way you can do that is if you have some of sociopathic qualities.

Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!

A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them.

I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.

Those who forgive themselves and are able to accept their real nature, they are the strong ones.

All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.

I liked flowers but I never wore clothes with flower prints. Through those flowers, I was actually able to show my gracefulness as a girl.

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

The right to express our thoughts means something only if we are able to have thoughts of our own

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

Only those who are ready to become nobodies are able to love.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

I ski to win. When the day comes that I can't get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won't be able to win and I'll stop racing.

[Eva Braun] loved [Adolf Hitler]. She would have done that had she been able to spend 10 minutes with him. She endured a lot on his behalf, there's a great deal on that subject to be said.