Able Quotes

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

I think we need to do much more with our tech companies to prevent ISIS and their operatives from being able to use the Internet to radicalize, even direct people in America and Europe and elsewhere.

I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?

The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political "mistakes" without being subjected to governmental penalties.

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

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

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.

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.

How many people is the earth able to sustain?

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

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

The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

It was really hard to find people to come over and play guitar and sing and write songs together. So that turned me into a songwriter that way, just so I could be able to play with other people.

I really do want to just be able to sit in the corner of the pub with my friends... to just be an actor and still go to the supermarket and not get bothered.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

Professionally, I don’t necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won’t be able to have fun and express yourself.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Human beings are able to reflect on their existencefor now that distinguishes us from other creatures.

I believe that we are stewards of a time that is upon us - but often we need the encouragement of each other to be able to wake up to this extraordinary time and possibility.

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

How can I, who was not able to retain my own past, hope to save that of another?

America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.

Control is an illusion. You will never be able to control anything, any situation, or anyone without consent. So in actuality there is no control, there is only consent!

I just try to play as hard as I can every possession. If you're aware and you're high-energy, the ball will eventually bounce your way and you'll be able to make plays.

Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.

I'm so happy people are seeing the eclectic side of me. I'm really honored to be able to push my voice into different sounds. Otherwise it all gets a bit samey same.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Since we're coming into a rebirth, and there's a consciousness of health, because the disease that is death, we are able to overcome that.

If I ever met Dolly Parton for sure, I would just not be able to say anything. I love her.

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

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

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

I support the ability of people to be able to burn the American flag if they want to. But people have the right in this country to debate it.

I think once every person on the planet sees 'New Moon' and there's nobody left who hasn't see it, then I think they'll be able to go see 'Ninja.'

News-hunters have great leisure, with little thought; much petty ambition to be considered intelligent, without any other pretension than being able to communicate what they have just learned.

When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I've never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

The able have no desire to appear to be so, and this is part of their ability.

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

Every scientist would like to be able to move through research faster, to spend less time and money acquiring material or disseminating it.

I enjoyed recording at home. I had the luxury of being able to re-record things.

For me, the NFL is the thing that's always been, kind of somewhat like the Heisman, it's been a dream as a kid to be able to have an opportunity to even be talked about being able to play in the NFL.