Able Quotes

The ways in which we are able to express courage also depend on the hand life deals us.

To me, it's not about being anywhere, but being able to change my perceptions and experience something new.

Being able to improvise is the basis for creating all characters and situations, for everything to do with performing, really. And it's good therapy as well.

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

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.

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.

Literary qualifications have no more to do with it than oratory has with salesmanship. One must be able to express himself briefly, clearly, and convincingly, just as a salesman must.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

The Master said, "A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present."

Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?

While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits of the dead...While you do not know life, how can you know about death

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

What are you going to do?,' he asked me. Me? Nothing. Something has just been broken inside me; you yourself will never be able to repair it.

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!

There are indeed times when one should TRUST blindly, just as there are times when one should not. WISDOM consists in being able to tell one from the other.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

There is never a right or wrong time to have kids; it happens for whatever reason, but you can have this paranoia: 'will I be able to do this, I'm not sure if I'm ready to have kids?'

That level of trust was what being in command was truly about--being able to lead someone not only down an unknown path, but also a seemingly wrong path, if the need called for doing so.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

I thought if something was a good idea, we should be able to apply it to ourselves as guinea pigs and do something with it, rather than just tell other people what they should do.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

True freedom is not about being able to do whatever we feel like doing; rather, it is about being able to do what we truly want to do, in spite of what we feel like doing at the moment.

He is able to help His children work through anything, and not a single thing is going to happen in the future that can change that fact.

He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.

One of the marks of a life well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.

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.

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

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

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

We're all colored, or you wouldn't be able to see anyone.

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 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.

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

Alltami (n.) The ancient art of being able to balance the hot and cold shower taps.

The one weapon every man, soldier, sailor, or airman should be able to use effectively is the rifle.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.

If you are a good writer - and I think I am - you are able to handle any kind of group and imagine their lives.

Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine.

I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.

You must be able to handle a variety of move orders during the first 5-6 moves - otherwise you'll find yourself 'tricked' time and time again.

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.