Able Quotes

It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around the world.

I was fed up with not being able to play a movie the way I wanted to play it.

Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

Narrowness is the mother of unbelief. Obtain a broad outlook if you would agree with God in your philosophy and be able to transmit God's own thought into your life.

There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

We are often able because we think we are able.

Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!

The simple but observable fact is that the more you love, the more you are able to love.

Not being able to address the attribution of change in the early 20th century to my mind precludes any highly confident attribution of change in the late 20th century.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

Unless you hit your television with a sledgehammer, you're not going to be able to be an individual.

Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

When I get to the end of my life, I want to be able to look back and know that my being here made things better - Daphne

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.

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it.

The best way to do comedy is to not filter yourself, and then you could always fix it later. You want to be able to push the envelope.

If you didn't have employers able to pay off the books and off the record safely in cash, you wouldn't have illegal immigration on nearly the scale that we do.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

I see God as a song-and-dance man. If I had my way, he'd be able to carry a tune, too. Preferably, one of mine.

As human beings, we have the blessing and the curse that we're able to adapt to almost anything. No matter how extreme the circumstances you're in, they become normal.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

I want to accomplish my work and fulfill my dreams, and do something with my life, and I hope I'll be able to accomplish it. It's very much work, but I like it.

I continued a legacy of great skating from this country and I was able to capitalize on the reputation of the Canadian skaters that came before me. I especially mean Brian Orser.

I love being able to stay real to the world.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

Steve Marcus was one of the greatest saxophonists in all of music. He truly was able to unite jazz with the popular music of the time.

[Christians] practiced moderation and chastity in marriage, for example, and Galen was puzzled at how they were able to do so. His comments are a kind of back-handed compliment, I suppose.

It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.

A long time ago when I was very little, I dreamed about being on stage. Some people told me I would never be able to do it, so I only paid attention to those who told me that I could.

No matter which way I move you, that's a powerful thing to be able to do.

With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world.

We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled.

I'm a technophobe. I can't crack the iPhone, and the extent of my multitasking is being able to talk while I make a drink.

I don't think I'd be able to flat-out write a pop song and make it satisfying to me. I'm ready to make a consistent sound in whatever way I can.

I always wanted to be an actor and I'd never dreamt that not only would I be able to do this for a living, but also on top of that I'd be able to choose and steer the course of my own career.

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.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

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

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.

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.

This time, there were no drugs involved. The hours were completely normal daytime hours. I think we were able to appreciate the interplay, where before we had taken it for granted.

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.

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