Able Quotes

People are dangerous. If they're able to involve themselves in issues that matter, they may change the distribution of power, to the detriment of those who are rich and privileged.

I've missed being able to flip in the air, flip on the beam and swing on the bars.

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

It's so sad that no one writes down the things we go through, and even worse - no one will ever know about it, no one will ever see or hear about it, no one will ever be able to restore.

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.

I owe a debt to America that I will never be able to repay.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.

Anybody who ever built an empire, or changed the world, sat where you are now. And it's *because* they sat there that they were able to do it.

My number one thing was that if I ever did get successful enough to make it, I wanted to be able to give back to my family.

Age is how you feel. If you take care of yourself, you'll be able to do the same things. You may not do it as often. But you can still do it.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it

The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.

I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

I would like to deal with a person who is able to take responsible decisions and implement the agreements reached. The name [Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton] does not matter.

I wasn't able to lower my cholesterol so they put me on a statin drug. It is called lipitor. I was able to lower my level in about 30 days from above 300 to below 200.

Being able to take care of myself is something that my mom really instilled in me.

Judging foods without regard to price is a rich mans game, and yet poor people can be gourmets able to discern a good potato from a bad one.

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.

It's not the mathematical skill that's critical to winning; it's the discipline of being able to stick to the system.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

For me, I'm able to use my gift to glorify God. That's what it's about for me.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

I'll be able to pull off playing an unlikable character because inherently, I think I'm likable.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

Speaking of line, what artist of line was ever able to find more depth and volume than Hirschfeld? He was an illustrator and a caricaturist, but first and foremost, an artist.

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.