Capable famous quotes
03-26-2025
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Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.
-- Alice Miller -
If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.
-- Ally Carter -
To survive, to avert what we have termed future shock, the individual must become infinitely more adaptable and capable than ever before.
-- Alvin Toffler -
I am not the best, but I am capable of achieving the impossible.
-- Anderson Silva -
Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.
-- Anna Katharine Green -
We are all more capable than we think we are.
-- Anne Murray -
Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
-- Anthony Rapp -
You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.
-- Bear Bryant -
I know that human beings are capable of anything.
-- Ben Okri -
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
-- Bette Greene -
I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.
-- Bill Nye -
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
-- Brandon Sanderson -
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
-- Brené Brown -
Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.
-- Bryan Robson -
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
-- Charles de Lint -
Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don’t apply to you.
-- Chuck Close -
even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.
-- Connie May Fowler -
So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.
-- Cynthia Hand -
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
-- Daniel Day-Lewis -
The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.
-- Dave Grohl -
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
-- David Blaine -
Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.
-- Debby Ryan -
What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.
-- Don Williams -
The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
-- Donna Shalala -
We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.
-- Dorothy Day -
None of us can know what we are capable of until we are tested.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
Good people were also capable of doing very bad things.
-- Elizabeth Chandler -
Not to be miserable is all some people are capable of.
-- Elizabeth Montagu -
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog. I'm capable of a lot more.
-- Esai Morales -
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
-- G. M. Trevelyan -
Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.
-- Giannina Braschi -
I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.
-- Gil Scott-Heron -
When I say do your best, I mean your very best. You are capable of so much more.
-- Gordon B. Hinckley -
Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.
-- Goswami Kriyananda -
I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.
-- Greta Gerwig -
God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.
-- Harold S. Kushner -
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.
-- Harry Shum, Jr. -
I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare.
-- Helen Keller -
Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.
-- Henry Norris Russell -
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
-- Hermann Oberth -
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.
-- Hugh Walpole -
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it
-- Isidore Isou -
I just didn't know how much of this I was capable of. How far this - whatever it was - would actually go before old fears overshadowed the warmth.
-- J. Lynn -
I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.
-- Jack Abramoff -
I am confident, I am capable, and I will not wait to be rescued by a woodsman or a hunter.
-- Jackson Pearce -
There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.
-- James Cameron -
A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
-- Jared Diamond -
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.
-- Joan Larkin -
Photography has always been capable of manipulation.
-- Joel Sternfeld -
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.
-- John Cassavetes -
Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.
-- John Dufresne -
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
-- Jose Marti -
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
-- Joseph Joubert -
The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.
-- Juvenal -
Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.
-- Kim Dae-jung -
Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
-- Kofi Annan -
The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.
-- Larry Niven -
I'm perfectly capable of being stupid on my own.
-- Leigh Bardugo -
Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of
-- Louise Hay -
Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.
-- Lysander Spooner -
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.
-- Marianne Williamson -
I'm the underdog, but know what I'm capable of.
-- Mark Philippoussis -
You will never see what you are capable of, although you must seek to.
-- Marshall Sylver -
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
-- Mary Astell -
That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.
-- Mike Tomlin -
You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.
-- Ming-Dao Deng -
to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.
-- Mircea Eliade -
Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.
-- Nasser Hussain -
We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
-- Norman Vincent Peale -
Hyphens, like cats, are capable of arousing tenderness or shudders.
-- Pamela Frankau -
A man is capable of thought. A crowd is not.
-- Patrick Ness -
If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
-- Paul J. Meyer -
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
-- Paul Ricoeur -
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
-- Paul Theroux -
From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
-- Paula Radcliffe -
We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.
-- Pema Chodron -
One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.
-- Penelope Cruz -
So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.
-- Pete Carroll -
The less we move, the less we are capable of moving.
-- Pete Egoscue -
Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love.
-- Pope Francis -
Are you capable of risking your life for someone? Do it for Christ.
-- Pope John Paul II -
The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
-- Rachel Weisz -
You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.
-- Raymond T. Odierno -
A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love
-- Ricardo Piglia -
You are capable of more than you ever thought.
-- Richard Machowicz -
How capable are we of bringing about authentic change if we don't have voices from the margins?
-- Richard Twiss
