Able Quotes
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
Be able to hiccup silently, or at least without alerting neighbors to your situation. The first hiccup is an exception.
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos.
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.
I told you that your dream was a difficult one. It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.
The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.
This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.
The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation.
Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.
The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.
I don't think Mercedes-Benz says anything about me, really. I was in a situation where I was able to get a really nice car and I'm proud to have it.
Art to me is a humanitarian act and I believe that there is a responsibility that art should somehow be able to effect mankind, to make the word a better place.
I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that. Don't rush into adulthood, it isn't all that much fun.
You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
Communication can't always follow the top-down model. With the fluidity of information in business today, leaders need to be masterful listeners; they need to be able to receive as well as send.
All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, "What are you going through?
There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years.
And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.
Being able to articulate the gospel with accuracy is one thing; having its truth captivate your soul is quite another.
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
Stop doing what you're able to do and figure out what you were made to do - then do lots of that.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.
The law was given to drive us to despair over the hopelessness of ever being able to keep it.
I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat.
If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.
When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
That was the crossover line for us, to be able to play that many shows, sell them out real quick and have that tribe queue up outside and still be a mystery to everybody else.
