Able Quotes

Even well-known historians like Edward Gibbon are talking about how the soldiers of the 18th century were not able to do the same type of exercise [like Romans].

He must be able to mystify his officers and men by false reports and appearances, and thus keep them in total ignorance.

Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

On a more human level, the closest things to truths that I have been able to access are Love, Art, and Play.

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

We are willing to weather the storm of multiple failures to achieve a goal. We're so convinced in the destination that we are able to let go of the reins and give it to God.

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

History will only change when we are able to use the energy of love, just as we use the energy of the wind, the seas, the atom.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country.

Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn't touch Limbaugh.

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win!

You are capable of more than you realize. You are far more capable than you were even 12 months ago. Next year you will be able to do things you can't imagine doing today.

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

Baseball players or cricketers do not need to be able to solve explicitly the non-linear differential equations which govern the flight of the ball. They just catch it.

Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried

What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

The more opportunities we have, the more likely we are to be able to handle the unexpected.

To live passionately, we ought to be able to look once again at the people we once cared for deeply and painfully.

I am very true to the proud tradition of the old school wrestling that I was brought up on. I am very blessed to be able to live out my dreams, and I have a great respect for the business.

That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

My understanding is that to love, we need to be able to totally surrender to the living/dying nature of this world.

If thou hadst simplicity and purity, thou wouldst be able to comprehend all things without error, and behold them without danger. The pure heart safely pervades not only heaven, but hell.

I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.

I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.

What matters most to me? To work with my model until I have it enough in me to be able to improvise, to let my hand run free.

The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea.

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

I pride myself in being able to straddle demographics and if that was said as Barney Stinson it would mean a little different thing.

No prime minister in Britain will ever be able to go to war without the endorsement of a majority of the House of Commons.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.