Capable Quotes · Page 47

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which…

— M. Scott Peck

Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.

— Boris Johnson

You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

— Frederick Lenz

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.

— Abraham Kaplan

Nobody is more capable of detecting eventual economic fluctuation than women, since they monitor the increases and decreases of their home's budgets.

— Michel Temer

Love, as we have already discussed, is a powerful, wonderful, ridiculous thing, capable of moving mountains. And spools of thread.

— Kate DiCamillo

The best jury of your peers that you’ll ever find is…well, you. Only you know what you’re capable of and what you…

— Richelle Mead

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

— Albert Camus

I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government…

— Tony Blair

You, who can't do anything, think you can bring off something like that? How can you even dare to think about it?…

— Franz Kafka

The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then…

— Aristotle

Man is so created that as to his internal he cannot die; for he is capable of believing in God, and thus…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates…

— Vincent Van Gogh

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its…

— Elliott Abrams

Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Vanity is so closely allied to virtue, and to love the fame of laudable actions approaches so near the love of laudable…

— David Hume

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large…

— Anonymous

At Rome there were nothing even vaguely resembling modern political parties - although given the stifling impact of these, this may well…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in…

— Karl Ernst von Baer

I think there are plenty of men out there who are capable and accomplished in their own realm. You don't have to…

— Condoleezza Rice

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little.…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the…

— Henry Fielding

So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom…

— Zoe Kravitz

Existence loves laughter. You may have observed, or not, that man is the only animal in the whole of existence who is…

— Anonymous

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of…

— Mandy Harvey

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and…

— Norman Cousins

I think we Chinese are just as capable, as diligent, as hardworking, as peace-loving, and as creative as people everywhere.

— Li Lu

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable…

— Donald Rumsfeld

The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

— Jean Harris

We're both [with Mark Wahlberg] capable of being sarcastic, vicious, violent lunatics, but we hold each other in check, appeal to the…

— Peter Berg

“We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.”

— Douglas Rushkoff

There's a bit of hazing when it comes to the youth performers and a disbelief that you're capable of handling dramatic or…

— Jaleel White

I'm not quite pompous enough to think of myself as an educator or a man capable of definitive refutation of falsehoods.

— John Shirley

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

— Mercedes Lackey

When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I…

— Willem Dafoe

I intend to surround myself with and empower experienced, capable civilian leaders who will enable healthy civil-military relations, grounded in meaningful oversight.

— Lloyd Austin

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the…

— Theodor Adorno

If you are capable of making good pictures it's immoral not to do so, for whatever reason or excuse you might give.

— Jeff Wall

It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory, but when you succeed, you start to realize that you're capable of…

— Anonymous

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we…

— Michelle Bachelet