Ability Quotes
5560 quotes by 3394 authors
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You could miss someone, but it did no good to fixate on loss. I wished I had the ready words of a Breeder or the…
— Ann Aguirre
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You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood,
— Jeaniene Frost
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Once or twice a week I would set my alarm for six A.M. so I could get up and plug in Hot Stix...I would study…
— Tina Fey
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
— Joan Didion
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Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent…
— John F. Kennedy
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It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly…
— David Foster Wallace
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Being left makes you doubt your ability to keep people, even friends.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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At least my happiness doesn't depend on Ron's goalkeeping ability.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place…
— Damon Galgut
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He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing…
— Alain de Botton
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Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set…
— Stuart Hill
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We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days…
— Frank Herbert
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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much…
— Aberjhani
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One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling…
— Howard Schultz
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My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort,…
— Chelsea Handler
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The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money.Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to…
— Nalini Singh
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She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was,…
— Anne Fortier
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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in…
— Sharon Salzberg
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