Able Quotes · Page 98

I liked being able to portray a woman at this particular age and at this point in her life.

— Parker Posey

Its just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

— Lasse Hallstrom

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

— Jim Abbott

Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.

— William Stafford

Look at your heart-flower and smile. You will be able to solve your most pressing problems.

— Sri Chinmoy

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

— Joel Osteen

Only God is able to humble us without humiliating us and to exalt us without flattering us.

— Ravi Zacharias

In the hands of an able cook, fish can become an inexhaustible source of perpetual delight.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.

— Joe Jonas

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

— Terry Jones

Tennis is beautiful when you can see tactics, when players don't just react but are able to act and think.

— Rafael Nadal

Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.

— Sherrod Brown

A player must be able to skate, have hockey sense, be able to shoot, but not necessarily be able to score.

— Pierre Page

Love is happy when it is able to give something. The ego is happy when it is able to take something...osho

— Anonymous

Playing an alien gave me plenty of scope, and I was able to develop it once I became a member of the…

— Sarah Sutton

It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.

— James Blunt

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference…

— Guy Finley

It's natural. I freestyle, meaning that I just rap. I might put words on paper, but I just put a beat on…

— Snoop Dogg

My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts…

— Hermann Hesse

Perhaps she drives men away. Perhaps, without even being able to help herself, she just puts men into her ill-tempered car and…

— Lorrie Moore

I think being able to really fall in love with someone is the craziest thing that could ever happen. You know, allowing…

— Zoey Deutch

It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop…

— Abbi Glines

“I had always wondered what Reverend Lovoy meant when he talked about "grace." I understood it now. It was being able to…

— Anonymous

We may never be able to pay directly for the gifts of true friendship - but pay we must, even though we…

— Yousuf Karsh

It is very important to be aware that you may never be satistied with your analytic career if you feel that you…

— Wilfred Bion

We recognize a tree by its fruit, and we ought to be able to recognize a Christian by his action. The fruit…

— Ignatius of Antioch

One day, quite some time ago, I happened on a photograph of Napoleon’s youngest brother, Jerome, taken in 1852. And I realized…

— Roland Barthes

Love is the wanting, and the having, and the choosing, and the becoming. Love is the desire to see the person we…

— Matthew Kelly

No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the…

— Carroll Quigley

I was lucky to be in a household where whatever I wanted to do was supported and my music was always such…

— Zella Day

To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly…

— Brigid Brophy

The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to…

— Louis O. Kelso

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

— John Raitt

What do you want to be? If you don't put the work in, you're not going to be able to be it.

— Mo Farah

I was probably 7 or 8 when I went to see the Bulls play and was able to see Michael Jordan.

— Sue Bird

I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work.

— Stella Young

If I hadn't been able to get my first book published, I am not sure what I would have done.

— Sara Sheridan

I've been singing my whole life and I've always wanted to be able to pursue a music career.

— Corbin Bleu

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

— Utada Hikaru

Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.

— P. G. Wodehouse