Able Quotes
10642 quotes by 6545 authors
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Obamas finest speeches do not excite. They do not inform. They dont even really inspire. They elevate. . . . He is not the Word…
— Ezra Klein
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise for those who…
— Samuel R. Delany
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My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem…
— Clifford D. Simak
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Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just distant enough to…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We…
— Jean Craighead George
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It win be a device that will permit communication without any time interval between two points in space. The device will not transmit messages, of…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it
— Carol Alt
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Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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I never would have been able to tithe the first million dollars I ever made if I had not tithed my first salary, which was…
— John D. Rockefeller
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To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California
— Meg Whitman
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
— Kate Upton
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Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control…
— Brian De Palma
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Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to…
— Ronald Speirs
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I am able to really enjoy the positive attention I receive.
— Doutzen Kroes
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I always carry a camera because it is so important to me to take pictures and document all the incredible things and places I have…
— Karlie Kloss
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I pretended indifference…even in the presence of love, in the presence of hunger. And the more deeply I felt, the less able I was to…
— Louise Glück
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