Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tropical-force winds are still quite capable of substantial damage. As the winds come down, the rain will take over as a primary threat.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Yeah, that's possible. I'm capable of a lot, a whole lot. I can't put a finger on it.

Jeffrey Tambor

Those guys, Scott and Preston, had professionalism, with a capital P. It's a bygone era. I'm getting emotional talking about them.

You know what? I thought we played pretty strong but I think it was more them just not making the shots. We gave them a number of chances to get out of some ends and they didn't capitalize on our misses.

Jeff Gordon

You know, we really are going to have to be as on top of our game this weekend as we've ever been. You know, certainly we're capable of that, I know that we are. We haven't shown that this year, so I'm hoping that when it is all on the line that we do step it up. I know the team is capable of doing that.

Rick Barnes

You know they're probably going to shoot 25 threes, and they're capable of making more than half.

Clint Hurdle

You know he's capable of doing it, and it's extending out over a long period of time. That will be the true test.

We needed much greater capacity to continue to grow the company, and the new site gives us a purpose-built plant with offices and extensive storage, plus the space to expand further over coming years. We already have plans to increase manufacturing in line with greater demand.

Donald Rumsfeld

We need your help to capture the rest of them, ... We also need to get rid of foreign fighters, those from neighboring countries who are seeking to hijack your country for their own purposes.

We need to win our home matches. We're 0-1 in the league and we need to win it all. We haven't been getting any first-place votes at this point. We have mostly first-year starters at the hitting positions, so it would be a very big upset. But we're capable of doing that.

Duncan Fletcher

We need Michael back as captain as well as a player. He is a very successful captain and very inspirational.

We needed to capitalize on our chances and we didn't finish. They finished their chances and that was the difference in the game. I guess that's what the game is all about.

Jim Gilmore

We know there are more in there. We have captured five (in July) and we saw another four or five adults.

We've been expecting exports to pick up some of the slack of the easing domestic demand and we're not seeing this to date. So clearly there are capacity constraints out there that remain.

Helene D. Gayle

In order to counteract income inequality, it's essential to tackle poverty in an integrated way that has long-term impact. We need to give people the capacity to be resilient, to take on challenges and to learn the skills they need to work toward more prosperous futures.

Henry Giroux

Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits.

Annalee Newitz

Unlike economics, whose sole preoccupation in our finance-obsessed era is the near-term profit motive, history offers a way to place our tiny lifespans in a narrative that spans dozens of generations - perhaps even reaching into a future where capitalism is no longer our dominant form of economic organization.

Larry Brown

We got to be ready to play our first game, ... We've lost three times. Again, I'm trying to tell them we had chances to win all three. So don't feel like you're not capable of winning games. And try to understand what we need to do better.

We got their pitcher on the ropes early, but we didn't capitalize and let him get back on a roll after the first couple of innings.

We get so focused on micromanaging God and His Kingdom that we forget to realize that He is more than capable of handling things on His own!

A. S. Byatt

There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.

Bill Callahan

You get into moods - like, if somebody does something to you, then you're angry for maybe 30 seconds, or maybe 30 years. I was always interested in capturing those awful, unflattering things that everybody goes through - those hot moments, captured in ice.

Beth Brooke

Sponsorship involves putting your own political capital at risk, so they are going to help that person to succeed. Women get promoted; they don't get sponsored. Women know they are on their own if they get that promotion.

Ben Folds

With the a cappella groups, every voice is like one string on a guitar, one note on the piano, or one cymbal, and you don't have the luxury of falling back on anything.

We'd like to see less of that tax being used for operational purposes and more of it going to capital projects. So with that thought in mind, that's kind of been where we've guided this year's proposed budget.

We would have to go through a process of assessing what he is capable of doing physically.

We were a little flat coming out of the county tournament. We didn't wrestle to our capability throughout the lineup.

We were about to reach capacity with our current system.

We definitely wanted to get a win for him and cap his night off. Unfortunately, we couldn't do that.

John Abraham

We definitely think we're a playoff team and we definitely think we're capable of winning the Super Bowl.

We definitely need more capacity for the education of nursing students.