Able Quotes
10642 quotes by 6545 authors
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Margarine? That's not food. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can. If you're planning on using margarine in anything, you can stop reading now,…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world…
— Pat Metheny
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I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young
— Pat Metheny
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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without…
— Luigi Pirandello
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly…
— Ambrose Bierce
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You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it.
— Eileen Caddy
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Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
— Rene Char
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It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.
— Gentry Lee
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If I start going back to church, I'd have to stop the smoking and drinking, and I wouldn't be able to curse any more.
— Katherine Heigl
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When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems…
— Howard Martin
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no…
— Iain Duncan Smith
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We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world…
— Jonathon Porritt
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When you get hit that's when you've got to be calm. A professional fighter has to learn how to hit and not get hit, and…
— Cus D'Amato
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The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future.
— Frank William Taussig
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In life we don't get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to…
— Farrah Gray
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It is finally when you let go of what people expect you to be and people's perceptions of you that you're able to be the…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a…
— Dave Eggers
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A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.
— Harriet Morgan
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The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it.
— James R Newman
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Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as…
— Hannah Arendt
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