Able Quotes
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.
When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.
I feel like a novice, just as I felt before I knew anything of the keyboard. It is far too original, and I shall end up not being able to learn it myself.
When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands and we see ourselves as beings of light.
We're too insignificant and small to really be able to do anything, except cry, not unhappily, but an inner cry, a feeling of reaching to God.
What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land, and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
Being able to make friends and keep them, welcoming others and sharing with them, a guide, philosopher and friend. One like this will be praised.
We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.
What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.
Theres a great sense of achievement, testosterone, fun, being able to live out your masculinity when you play an action role or an action-adventure or a real tough-guy role.
I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.
I'm in love with Earth. I truly am. And so listening is not work, to work toward a better future. It's joy. To not be able to work toward a better future would be work. That would be tough.
My passion for Sarah had killed simple lust forever. Never again would I be able to enjoy a woman without love.
I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.
It doesn't matter how complex your plot or your characters are; you have to be able to express the big idea of a film in a sentence or two.
If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?
We also have to intensify our air strikes against ISIS and eventually support our Arab and Kurdish partners to be able to actually take out ISIS in Raqqa, end their claim of being a Caliphate.
It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.
I'm never running for office. I love being able to speak to members of Congress or members of the Senate and floating on either side, because it takes all of us. It's going to take both of them.
There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.
I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
In our home we have a rule: You can disagree with a man's position as much as you want - after you have been able to state it to his satisfaction.
Beside him, making scarcely a sound, walked James, Sirius, Lupin, and Lily, and their presence was his courage, and the reason he was able to keep putting one foot in front of the other.
It was fun, having speed and being able to jump. Especially playing football. I played wide receiver and defensive back.
Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.
If I'm enjoying something, I'd like to be able to just have it all. Frankly, that's the way I'm approaching my career now. I'm a total workaholic.
To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work.
I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.
I think, through comedy, sometimes we're allowed to discuss things that you'd never be able to talk about in a drama.
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
If you are going to leave message, you have to be able to give enough value or reason to get your voice mail returned.
I'm sure fame is yet to come; however, it's not my ultimate goal. I really just want to be able to tell stories, and create, and do it for a living.