Able Quotes

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself.

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use.

The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.

I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.

Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

I believe that gut feelings, the sense of balance, and spatial self-perception are so firmly coupled to our biological body that we will never be able to leave it experientially on a permanent basis.

Artistically, you want to be able to do a lot of things that can challenge you to not just stay in the same thing.

I must say that the more you give, the more you get. Being able to find solutions, to help other people is extremely gratifying.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

Theatre has so many competitors, it's no longer enough to see and hear a play. You want to be able to touch and smell it, too.

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed.

At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

My goal is to get on the national team. People joke that we'll be able to go to Beijing in 2008, but it's just jokes right now. Hopefully I'll be able to make it a reality.

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.

We also have to be honest about the fact that not everyone who seeks to join our country will be able to successfully assimilate. Sometimes it's just not going to work out.

I love to negotiate things, I do it really well, and all that stuff. But it's possible I won't be able to get along with Putin.

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

To be a creative person and be a professional, as an artist you have to be able to withstand pain, rejection, and for some, a lot of bad feelings, but you have to be able to look through those.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.

The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

I love bringing people together. I think that the environment is so important in terms of what kind of relationships you might be able to create, how people get to know each other.

The key to happiness is not being rich; it's doing something arduous and creating something of value and then being able to reflect on the fruits of your labor.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.

I want to direct but I think I'd be bloody awful and I don't want to produce but I think I'd be a very good producer because if I believed in something I'd be able to protect it.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

My name, Diana Ross, is my name and nobody should be able to use that for exploitative purposes but me.

How essential it is in youth to acquire some intellectual or artistic tastes, in order to furnish the mind, to be able to live inside a mind with attractive and interesting pictures on the walls.

Horror films are art, it's all make believe. It's great if a filmmaker can try to push boundaries and see how much an audience can take and see what happens. It's fun to be able to do that.

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It’s being where you want to be when you want to be; just living your life how you feel; having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.