Able Quotes

With spiritual growth comes new creative potential, leading to the realization that you are pure potential, able to fill any creative impulse.

I've been very fortunate. I feel very thankful. I've been able to come home and do some fun things and make it exciting for people here at home

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

I feel like I should be able to be 18 and have the friends that I choose and to have fun and live my life.

Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm just not good enough.

And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot yet do today?

I dreamed of being very attracted to my future husband, and I'm extremely attracted to him. I dreamed of having lots of fun together and being able to be goofy and be accepted, that's all there.

Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

I am honored to be able to serve GM at this critical juncture and take part in its reinvention.

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

We have to be able to reject disproportionate and unjustified responses in the cyber domain just as we do in the physical domain.

It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well...

I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg.

We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.

Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it.

Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

In the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

Strange! I don't understand how it is that we can write mathematical expressions and calculate what the thing is going to do without being able to picture it.

But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

You may not yet be able to bring your unconscious mind activity into awareness as thoughts, but it will always be reflected in the body as an emotion, and of this you can become aware.

Every American worker should be able to save for retirement via payroll deductions.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

The greatest changes in history have come when people were able to shake off what others told them to do.

On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material.

I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.

It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

I think in terms of what I am able to accomplish and build.

The rider and the team need to understand one another and work in the same direction. Then the rider's happy, and only then will the rider be able to give 100%.