Quotes about able
able sophisticated feels
To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it. George Carlin
able next faces
You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that. Jeffrey Eugenides
able illusion situation
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! Jennifer O'Neill
able victim threat
The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat. James A. Baldwin
able steps logic
[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. Immanuel Kant
able dignity rich
One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.
able
Howard Stern was the only one that was able to get through to me. Jessica Hahn
able misery pluck
Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Jeremy Bentham
able phony has-beens
I have been able to sniff out a phony. Jennifer Coolidge
able language
The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. Jil Sander
able adults should
You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult. Gil Scott-Heron
able helping persons
If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.
able different language
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time. Ferdinand de Saussure
able imagine grandkids
Now, there's just so much imagery. Imagine what our grandkids are going to be able to see of us? Feist
able example complaining
The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
able exciting liberating
To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting. Hugh Laurie
able tickets damn
My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please! Ernest Bevin
able venture sincerely
I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
able made disgrace
It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious. Plutarch
able poverty news
To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty. Mother Teresa
able want christ
We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
able imagine
Usually I'm able to imagine something and it comes out as I imagined, more or less. Julie Delpy
able indifference hunger
I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to respond. Louise Gluck
able emotion
There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions. Louise Erdrich
able muhammad empty
When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty. Sugar Ray Leonard
able would-be injury
I knew I would be able to come back from the injury 100 percent. Sue Bird
able facts action
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact. Steve Jobs
able married institutions
I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with. Teri Polo
able existence rejoice
Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. Ted Chiang
able crave
Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it. Rob Bell
able
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all. Melanie Lynskey
able i-can jokes
I can't stand not being able to joke around on set, so I have to. Johnny Depp
able standing
Theres nothing like standing in a place and wanting nothing so much as to change but simply not being able to. Kevin Spacey