Able Quotes
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a relatively wealthy cotton manufacturer.
It's not enough to be able to spell "magnificence" in your bedroom. You have to be able to spell it at the microphone during the spelling bee.
What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
The basic goal-reaching principle is to understand that you go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will always be able to see farther.
Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
Art came fluidly, so I was able to teach myself many of the things I thought were important by copying and mimicking my artistic idols.
A guy as great as Brett Favre has been for the length of time he's been, you would hope that he would be able to leave the game with a positive flavor in his mouth.
I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.
Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.
The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.
If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents.
Of all the tyrannies which have usurped power over humanity, few have been able to enslave the mind and body as imperiously as drug addiction.
When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.
We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."
I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.
How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).
When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams - fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act.
Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
If you're a humble person, and you walk in, and you start talking, people are going to be able to tell. You can't fake it.
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages.
I'd say that the No. 1 attribute you need as an actor is to be malleable. You need to be able to change and tailor what you're doing to what the situation dictates.
I love England. In fact, they're getting to know me so well at Heathrow Immigration that this time I was able to completely bypass the six months rabies quarantine.
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.
Whenever we release our need to be right about everything as parents, we are able to meet our children in a relationship of mutuality and respect.
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.
In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.
It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.
I believe if a private citizen is able to affect public opinion in a constructive way, he doesn't have to be an elected public servant to perform a public service.
I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
Cats are distant, discreet, impeccably clean and able to stay silent. What more could be needed to be good company?
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.