Able famous quotes

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#War #Fighting #Able

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
-- Aaron Baddeley

#Golf #Practice #Able

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
-- Aaron Carter

#Jealousy #Commitment #Able

If I get an idea for a series that I really like, I'm sure I won't be able to resist coming back and doing it.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Ideas #Able #Coming Back

I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
-- Abbas Kiarostami

#Looks #Able

I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Would Be #Able #Helping

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
-- Abdallah II

#Evil #World #Able

You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
-- Abe Burrows

#Humor #Able #Taste

The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Men #Essence #Able

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Voice #Able #Way

I want certain things out of life. I want my grand kids, my kids' kids, being able to inherit what I've worked so hard to build.
-- Ace Hood

#Kids #Want #Able

I need to be able to explain myself in context.
-- Adam Lambert

#Needs #Able

You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
-- Adam McKay

#Care #Able #Failing

The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.
-- Adam Parfrey

#Gestalt #Able #Talismans

I'm kind of glad that I was able to properly grow up before becoming a massive movie star.
-- Adam Rayner

#Stars #Growing Up #Able

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.
-- Adam Zagajewski

#Fascination #Patterns #Able

Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.
-- Adnan Pachachi

#Political #Able #Rise Above

Until and unless we could disband these militias, this country won't be able to function properly.
-- Adnan Pachachi

#Country #Able #Function

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought
-- Adolf Hitler

#People #Use #Able

In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.
-- Adolf Hitler

#Order #Essentials #Able

I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.
-- Adora Svitak

#Reading #Three #Able

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.
-- Adrian Belew

#Guitar #Sound #Able

Adversity makes me hungrier. I thrive on being able to make a way out of No Way.
-- Adrian Peterson

#Adversity #Able #Way

I wasn't really able to love someone but I couldn't help but want to be loved.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Want #Able #Helping

I just take on what I can commit to completely at that point in time, and that way you'll be able to give your best.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

#Giving #Able #Way

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.
-- Ajay Naidu

#Landscape #Able #Actors

Each one of us has his own place in the industry. I've been able to prove that you don't necessarily have to be a Khan to be successful!
-- Akshay Kumar

#Successful #Able #Being Successful

I can control most things, but I don't seem to be able to control death.
-- Al Davis

#Able

The key.. will be a new public awareness of how serious is the threat to the global environment. Those who have a vested interest in the status quo will probably continue to be able to stifle any meaningful change until enough citizens.. are willing to speak out.
-- Al Gore

#Meaningful #Keys #Able

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.
-- Al Kaline

#Work #Play #Able

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
-- Al Yankovic

#Father #Able #Life Is

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.
-- Al-Shafi‘i

#Islamic #Blessing #Able

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
-- Alan Alda

#Inspirational #Listening #Able

When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
-- Alan Cohen

#Able

It's a bubble. It has to have intrinsic value. You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.
-- Alan Greenspan

#Imagination #Able #Bitcoin

That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.
-- Alan Keyes

#Able #Action #Reason

If light is outlawed, then only outlaws will be able to see where they're going.
-- Alan Moore

#Light #Able #Outlaw

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
-- Alan Rickman

#Able #Indecision #Plans

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
-- Alan Rudolph

#Humanity #Able #Republican

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.
-- Alan Shepard

#Zero #Shapes #Able

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.
-- Alan Vega

#Couple #Years #Able

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
-- Alan Watts

#Able #Bodhisattva #Preaching

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
-- Alan Watts

#Contentment #Alive #Able

You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
-- Alan Watts

#Definitions #Want #Able

And if I had a preference, it would be to be able to not be in the studio until 4 in the morning.
-- Alanis Morissette

#Morning #Would Be #Able

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
-- Albert Camus

#Country #Justice #Able

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
-- Albert Camus

#Justice #Soul #Able

Do not be surprised. I do not like writers and I cannot stand their lies. They speak so as not to listen to themselves speak. If they did listen, they would know that they are nothing and then they would no longer be able to speak.
-- Albert Camus

#Lying #Able #Speak

Beware of those who say: "I know this too well to be able to express it." For if they cannot do so, this is because they don't know it or because out of laziness they stopped at the outer crust.
-- Albert Camus

#Atheism #Laziness #Able

Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
-- Albert Camus

#Artist #Able #Modern

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader.
-- Albert Einstein

#Leadership #Leader #Able

As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
-- Albert Einstein

#Love #Able #Enough

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought
-- Albert Einstein

#Patterns #Able #Problem

I regret that I've been so busy with clinical work that I haven't been able to spend much time on experiments and outcome studies.
-- Albert Ellis

#Regret #Outcomes #Able

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Leadership #Men #Able

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Levels #Able #Thanks

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Cities #Able #Life Is

The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.
-- Alecko Eskandarian

#Able #Headbands #Heavy

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.
-- Aleksandar Hemon

#Long #Able #Becoming

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski

#Compassion #Suffering #Able

Lord, give me the strength to accomplish what You've given me to do and the faith to trust You that what I haven't been able to accomplish You've already assigned to someone else.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Giving #Able #Give Me Strength

The thing with being able to do accents is that it's still completely separate from being an actor.
-- Alessandro Nivola

#Actors #Able #Accents

We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
-- Alex Campbell

#Quality #Would Be #Able

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.
-- Alex D. Linz

#Home #Long #Able

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.
-- Alex Garland

#Sunshine #Proud #Able

I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.
-- Alex Gonzaga

#People #Able #Relate

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.
-- Alex Meraz

#Able #Film #Scene

I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
-- Alexander Fleming

#Playing Games #Able #Break

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Men #Able #Telephones

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
-- Alexander Herzen

#Progress #Development #Able

When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.
-- Alexander Ludwig

#Able #Enough

Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
-- Alexander Pope

#Care #Able #Reason

I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
-- Alexander Wang

#Running #Wake Up #Able

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.
-- Alexandra Adornetto

#Dream #Earth #Able

The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Scare #Able #Never Fade

Why are you so weird?" "Because my weird has to be able to cancel out your weird, Lady Cross-stitch." "At least what I do is considered an art form." "Yes, in ye olde medieal Europse you would've been quite the catch-
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Art #Stitches #Able

If a heart could break once, it shouldn't have been able to happen again.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Heart #Able #Break

But part of surviving is being able to move on.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Moving #Able #Surviving

I cant wait until Im able to afford really posh bags.
-- Alexandra Roach

#Waiting #Bags #Able

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
-- Alexandre Dumas

#Grief #Able #World

To destroy images is something every revolution has been able to do.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Able #Revolution

The weakest man is the one who is able to correct his moral defects, but doesn't take action.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib

#Men #Able #Action

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.
-- Ali MacGraw

#Yoga #Want #Able

I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
-- Ali MacGraw

#People #Want #Able

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?
-- Ali MacGraw

#Want #Able #Persons

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does, it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go, 'Oh, yeah, okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
-- Alice Englert

#Doe #Able #Belief

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
-- Alice James

#Vanity #Games #Able

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it happens in the natural course of therapy and if the client is able to maintain adult consciousness at the same time.
-- Alice Miller

#Adults #Able #Regression

Why is it a surprise to find that people other than ourselves are able to tell lies?
-- Alice Munro

#Lying #People #Able

She thought of how precious it was to be able to know another person over many years. There was incomparable richness in it.
-- Alice Walker

#Years #Able #Richness

I was able to actually combine dance and acting, which was a dream come true.
-- Alicia Vikander

#Dream #Acting #Able

I love to see how far you're able to go, both in skills but also emotionally how far I can push myself.
-- Alicia Vikander

#Skills #Able

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.
-- Alistair Begg

#Motivation #Purpose #Able

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
-- Alister E. McGrath

#Grace #May #Able

An agent said he didn't know what to do with me, I wouldn't be able to play any parts but lesbians and aliens.
-- Allison Janney

#Play #Agents #Able

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
-- Amelie Mauresmo

#Sleep #Tennis #Able

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.
-- Amos Lee

#Strong #Needs #Able

Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.
-- Amy Plum

#Doubt #Able #Instinct

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
-- Amy Shearn

#Writing #Stories #Able

I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.
-- Amy Winehouse

#Thinking #Special #Able