Able Quotes

Filming is a funny combination of having a good time and not being able to wait until its over.

I'm able to make decisions even in the face of adversity.

Before me is the abyss. How can I leap across it? And if I do not leap, how shall I ever be able to reach God?

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

I don't have time, you know - I want to be able to get it [information] instantly on the internet and not have to think about it. Well, there is that phenomenon as well.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

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

I know that in my own work I'm able to do all kinds of things I never thought I'd be able to do.

I will be able to love above all discontentment. To give even when I am stripped of everything. To dry tears even when I am still crying. To believe even when I am discredited.

I had things with numbers - because I love numbers - but it's not something I'm proud of. I'm proud that I was able to send them away, because you're much more present.

You should be able to grab people with ideas.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

This is the real tragedy of mankind, that until now the spirit of man has not been able to free itself, even along the path of its own development, from the tentacles of self-deception.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer.

All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.

Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Philosophy ought to be able to give an account of rationality that is not wholly detached from science's account of nature, even if it is not straightforwardly reducible to it.

With some hard work I'm sure you'll be able to walk again.

I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping.

The sick person is able to sense more than other people notice.

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

For years politicians have promised the Moon. I'm the first one to be able to deliver it.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

I am proud to be able to claim that, from the age of nineteen, I've managed to earna living entirely as a composer.

To be able to choose between proprietary software packages is to be able to choose your master. Freedom means not having a master.

We're not the public service of Canada, we're not just another department. We are the Canadian Forces, and our job is to be able to kill people.

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

Government that is open and honest will always be able to withstand the light of day.

It's masturbation for writers to be able to write this absolutely outrageous personality, in a character that you somehow agree with, part of the time, at least.

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.'

Opportunities are all around you, you just need to be able to see them.

Dogs notice, they share, they draw conclusions, they like it when they're able to be of service and are touchingly grateful when they're praised.

Crassus was in the habit of maintaining that nobody should be called rich who was not able to maintain an army on his income.

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Musically I'm able to keep going, because it's not about money and it's not about success. It's a challenge.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

But now, the final feeling... is one of gratitude that the journey was undertaken. Looking at the past has meant, for the first time, being able to let it go.

Being able to motivate girls to reach for their dreams, and giving them someone positive to look up to.