Able Quotes - page 8

She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn't been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him. (Nicholas Evans)

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Augusten Burroughs

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

Andy Stern

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself.

Penelope Lively

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

Paul Stanley

The sort of thinking at the time was, 'Well, we're giving you access to medical care which you wouldn't otherwise be able to get, so your payment is that we get to use you in research.'

Rebecca Skloot

When you are into mathematics, you have been so high on the scale of complexity of reasoning that you are living in some kind of altered reality. You think everybody on the street is able to understand complicated reasoning [...]. And you get very frustrated, when you discover that's not the case.

Cédric Villani

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Tadao Ando

Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect dentists to be able to forecast how many teeth you'll have when you're 80. You expect them to give good advice and fix problems.

Tim Harford

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

Billy Idol

Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose... it's like your broken. (Brian Selznick)

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

Graham Brown

But happiness is being able to hope, however faintly, for happiness. So, at least, we must believe if we are to live in the world of today.

Osamu Dazai

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

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky

Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.

Jean Rhys

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Jean Webster

I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.

John McGahern

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

Justin Halpern

What are you afraid of then? Not Being able to see, I think not seeing because your obsessed by something that blots out the world.

Eva Ibbotson

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast. (Elie Ducommun)

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

K. Eric Drexler

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Kevin Mitnick

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

Kevin Hart

The United States has to have the capability to deal with more than one enemy at one time and be able to confront them and win.

Leon Panetta

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