Able Quotes - page 3

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it. (Lynne Cheney)
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well." View quote
Emo Philips
Art will never be able to exist without nature. View quote
Pierre Bonnard
Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director. View quote
David Mamet
The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. View quote
David Bohm
Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. View quote
Geddy Lee
Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated. View quote
Robert Sheckley
The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. View quote
Amelia Earhart
If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If human beings are able to take a fresh look at themselves as well as the universe and change their rigid mentalities, humankind will make a leap forward. (Li Hongzhi)
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. View quote
David Hilbert
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match. View quote
Charles Dickens
Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. View quote
Erich Fromm
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on flying anyway. View quote
Mary Kay Ash
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. (Alan Turing)
I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. View quote
Max Eastman
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
An organisation that treats its programmers as morons will soon have programmers that are willing and able to act like morons only. View quote
Bjarne Stroustrup