Able Quotes

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

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.

Once you have seen and felt your ideal future, you will be ready and able to pay any price to get there.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

I happen to believe in immigration reform but I don't believe that that means that every person who has come into America should be able to stay.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

With directing, you have to know what you're doing, but you have to actually be able to control what's going on.

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

It is far more important to be able to hit the target than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.

To be a driver that can cross off one of those marquee events as a winner, that cements your legacy in motorsports, to be able to win the Daytona 500 is the ultimate dream of a race car driver.

People are able because they think they're able

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

The bows, the polka dots, the color, the playfulness - you don't have to over do it. You just have to be able to style it in the right way.

You cannot call yourself patient until you are willing and able to bear things that you have no wish to bear.

Since science and religion provide two different perspectives on the human situation, they must ultimately be able to be reconciled.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

I realized that the only purpose to revolution is to be able to love who you want, how you want, when you want and where you want.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.

There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and air travel because they weren't available to the Romans.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

The best way to fight the terrorists is to have the freest country on earth. You should be able to get on an airplane, and people - that will not possibly happen again.

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.

McDonald's is almost 50 years old. For 47 years we had a pretty consistent track record of being able to deliver admirable sales.

When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out — that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse.

I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.

Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it

I want to be able to speak freely about what I believe. There's a lot of people who would actually like to be able to do that but, for whatever reason, they can't.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

One of my biggest fears is not being able to break out of a rut; of becoming a prisoner to my ways, unable to change course. But in my mid-thirties, I learned you can change your thinking.

Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.

People can certainly be creative when they're under the gun, but only when they're able to focus on the work.