Capable Quotes · Page 38

In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood;…

— Robert Bly

For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of…

— Eric S. Raymond

If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding…

— Richard Dawkins

As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine.…

— Joseph Brodsky

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

A small knowledge of human nature will convince us, that, with far the greatest part of mankind, interest is the governing principle...…

— George Washington

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards…

— Ian Botham

It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been…

— William S. Burroughs

If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better…

— Dean Koontz

There was no magic encounter for me with a whale in the ocean; no being zapped by a whale as I snorkelled…

— Sue Arnold

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of…

— William Temple

I'm afraid," Professor Piper said, "afraid that you're never going to discover what you're truly capable of. That you won't get to…

— Rainbow Rowell

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

— Erich Fromm

Only those who are capable of silliness can be called truly intelligent.

— Christopher Isherwood

Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by…

— Nguyen Qui Duc

No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as…

— Anonymous

There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

— Marianne Williamson

The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there…

— William Lane Craig

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more…

— Charles Petzold

“I prefer to suffer than repent because I stand by my decision and capable enough top pay for it Or reap the…

— Ravindra Shukla

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me…

— Romain Rolland

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable…

— George Orwell

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they…

— Werner Herzog

The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the…

— Ulysses S. Grant

There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of…

— Daniel Webster