Able Quotes

To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow - that is the secret to being happy.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.

By the time I was in my early teens, we were able to move into a much more middle-class area. I had a comfortable adolescence.

Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous.

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

To succeed in comedy you ultimately have to put in the hours and get lucky - The amount of people who are able to break through is so small a fraction of the amount of people trying.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in.

I think the biggest thing for all athletes is recovery - being able to bounce back from week to week, practice to practice, to come back in top form.

Each human being has his or her own sexual identity and should be able to exercise that identity without guilt as long as they do not force that sexual identity on others.

I'm just not a big fan of the too-cool-for-school indie world. Metal bands have never been invited or been able to be part of the cool kids, and I like it that way.

I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

From the earliest wars of men to our last heart-breaking worldwide effort, all we could do was kill ourselves. Now we are able to kill the future.

I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.

A titled leader relies heavily on positional power to get things done; a natural leader is able to mobilize others without the whip of formal authority.

The body is like an elaborate metaphor. One may be able to taste and not swallow, like the anorexic, or to swallow and not integrate, like the bulimic or obese.

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off.

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

Choose your exercise using the same criteria you'd apply to choosing a date - that is, attractive to you and able to hold your interest for an hour.

To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.

I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.

And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

Success and failure in our own national economy will hang upon the degree to which we are able to work with races and nations whose social order and whose behavior and attitudes are strange to us.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

What you give to help others, builds them up enough that they are able to give to others. It's a cycle that can continue on long after you're dead and gone.

'10' was amazing! I had no career before '10' and then all of a sudden I was able to do pretty much whatever I was able to do in the business.

The coolest thing about doing live shows is I'm able to give the songs a new life. So even thought they're old, I'm able to do them in a way that's modern.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.

The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Aaron Pryor wants to get into the ring with me. He wants to be able to retire, and he will. For health reasons.