Able Quotes
10642 quotes by 6545 authors
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Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall…
— Samuel Johnson
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There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a…
— Cesar Chavez
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We are organizers at heart. Most of us in the movement take great pride in being able to put things together.
— Cesar Chavez
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It takes a lot of punishment to be able to do anything to change the social order.
— Cesar Chavez
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I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.
— Mark Wahlberg
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The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.
— Epictetus
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In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.
— Denis Diderot
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the…
— Paul Newman
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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When we are not rich enough to be able to purchase happiness, we must not approach to near and gaze on it in shop windows.
— Tristan Bernard
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We possess only the happiness we able to understand.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Unto him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight…
— Martin Luther
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There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress…
— Samuel Johnson
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... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world in which they…
— Walter Pater
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Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those…
— Mignon McLaughlin
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If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being…
— Albert Camus
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