Able Quotes - page 2

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. (Malcolm Muggeridge)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know. View quote
Mark Twain
A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money. View quote
Karl Marx
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?' View quote
Sigmund Freud
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy. View quote
Zhu Rongji
It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else. View quote
William Hazlitt
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. View quote
George Henry Lewes
The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist. (Maria Montessori)
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. View quote
G. M. Trevelyan
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. View quote
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving. View quote
Robert E. Lee
It was a challenge to be able to create a character without being able to use one's normal set of expressions. All the rubber and makeup attached to your face left you with only a modest range of facial movements. View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
If you could only keep quiet, clear of memories and expectations, you would be able to discern the beautiful pattern of events. Its your restlessness that causes chaos. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road. View quote
Karen Blixen
I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream. View quote
Andrew Wiles
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance. View quote
Donald Rumsfeld
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. View quote
Antonin Artaud
I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet. (Susan B. Anthony)
I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. View quote
E. O. Wilson
All my life I struggled to stretch my mind to the breaking point, until it began to creak, in order to create a great thought which might be able to give a new meaning to life, a new meaning to death, and to console mankind. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way. View quote
Ani DiFranco