Ability Quotes
5560 quotes by 3394 authors
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A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless…
— Markus Zusak
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Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
— Milan Kundera
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Life demands honesty, the ability to face, admit, and express oneself.
— Starhawk
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Maybe I’m drunk right now, even though I don’t remember drinking anything. When I’m drunk, I say things without thinking. Drinking numbs you from your…
— Carlton Mellick III
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If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make…
— Ayn Rand
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And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy…
— Ayn Rand
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Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.
— Ilona Andrews
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true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart.
— Jodi Picoult
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When someone works for less pay than she can live on -- when, for example, she goes hungry so that you can eat more cheaply…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
— Simone Weil
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There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very…
— Winston Churchill
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We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have…
— Edward Abbey
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It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the…
— Sarah Dessen
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How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds…
— M. Scott Peck
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One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is…
— Lisa Kleypas
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My dear sisters, do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your…
— Thomas S. Monson
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That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten.…
— Joseph Roth
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You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment…
— William P. Young
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All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought…
— William J. Clinton
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