Capable Quotes · Page 115

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the…

— Edmund Burke

The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and…

— H. L. Mencken

If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is…

— Benito Mussolini

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

— Leo Rosten

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things…

— Eric Jerome Dickey

Accuse American businessmen of being responsible for radicalism and they would indignantly deny the accusation. Yet, in one fundamental sense, they are…

— B. C. Forbes

Shyness is invariably a suppression of something. It's almost a fear of what you're capable of.

— Rhys Ifans

This is how it essentially is for Bunny Junior. He loves his dad. He thinks there is no dad better, cleverer, or…

— Nick Cave

After a while, you reach a certain point to where you know what your talent is, you know what you're capable of,…

— Dolph Ziggler

Wit is a thing capable of proof.

— Agnes Repplier

You've got to hae ground forces that are capable of going after them and rooting them out.

— Raymond T. Odierno

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in…

— Henry Miller

I've never felt limited by my circumstances, no matter what they were. Even when I was living in Iowa, it wasn't like…

— Michelle Monaghan

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.

— Dorothy Day

I mean, some people say, 'Oh, God, if [Jobs] got run over by a bus, Apple would be in trouble.' And, you…

— Steve Jobs

What a proof of the Divine tenderness is there in the human heart itself, which is the organ and receptacle oft so…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Nobody is more capable to pointing out the unbalances in, let's say, supermarket prices than women.

— Michel Temer

In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is…

— John Montgomery Ward

No one, I hope, can doubt my wish to see... all mankind exercising self-government, and capable of exercising it. But the question…

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't mind losing because it really shows me what the other eaters are capable of.

— Joey Chestnut

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have…

— Anne Lamott

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when…

— Carl Jung

There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him.

— Zane Grey

The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings

— John Stuart Mill

...whenever there is inspiration...and enthusiasm...there is a creative empowerment that goes far beyond what a mere person is capable of.

— Eckhart Tolle