Able Quotes

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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and honorably and justly, and it is impossible to live wisely and honorably and… — Epicurus
Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able… — Edgar Allan Poe
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying… — Jon Anderson
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come… — John Cage
That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of… — Robert E. Lee
Somehow, I've been blessed to be able to have the young spirit inside - not feel like every year I get a year older. I… — Rickey Henderson
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm… — Zaha Hadid
One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have… — Giovanni Falcone
The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being… — Giovanni Falcone
We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we… — Nelson Mandela
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people… — Wangari Maathai
My goal is to be able to play wherever my team needs me. — Chris Bosh
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should… — Andrei Tarkovsky
With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with… — Akira Kurosawa
I found that I faced a highly complex situation, and that I couldnt hope to change it until I had armed myself with the necessary… — Anwar Sadat
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships. — Benjamin Spock

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