Able Quotes

'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 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.

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.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

I think it's beautiful to be able to cover yourself in metal. I love the color and the way it reflects. But it is also a protection.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins.

It’s just simply the fact that the NSA does not think anybody should be able to communicate anywhere on the Earth without them being able to invade it.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."

I always believed a singer should be able to sing any kind of song. If I wanted to sing a Cole Porter song, I should be able to do that. Or Sherry, I should be able to do that. Or a Dylan song.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it.

Be able to read blueprints, diagrams, floorplans, and other diagrams used in the construction process.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Because it's uncensored cable, I think we'll be able to do the kind of sketch comedy that really hasn't been seen before. We can actually finish jokes.

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.

It is a mark of a superior mind to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.

I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to give up something that it broke your heart to lose, and be happy about it.

Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

In business be as able as you can, but do not be cunning; cunning is the dark sanctuary of incapacity.

Detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you are able to leave it.

I hit a lot of bad shots, but you just need to laugh about them, be able to have a smile on your face, and just keep moving.

I cannot bear the language TV chefs use - they don't seem able to look at a plate of vegetables without accusing it of sexual activity.

Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.