Able Quotes

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I love all of my shoes! It is a must to have them color coordinated, and to be able to see each and every one of them. I know exactly where each one lives and I can tell if one has even been moved!

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.

I've written a lot of music, so to be able to put that together and play some shows around the country and elsewhere - that would really be a fun thing to do.

Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.

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.

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

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

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.

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.

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

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing, and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works.

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on my rap, and go off the top of my head. It's something I've been able to do for a long time.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I’ll be able to live in it. Really, it’s an investment.

I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs' ad said, think different.

One of the biggest challenges of a horsemen is to be able tot control your emotions.

That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

When I was Governor, Louis Kelso went out of his way to brief me. I was very impressed, but I was never able to get any of the economists in state government to give him the help his plan deserves.

It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.

Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.

The great thing about the moon landing is that my grandmother got the first color TV in order to be able to see the moon landing that was in black and white.

Fear and worry are emotions that cloud the mind from being able to think clearly, to remember what the procedures are to deal with that emergency.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

A man usually falls in love with the woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer.

If I, the group leader, expect you, the group member, to be weak, then I elicit the weak part of you. If I expect you to be able to cope, I elicit your strength.

I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

The bird of truth would not be able to fly if it weren't for the air of lies we breathe.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all