Able Quotes
10642 Able quotes by 6238 unique authors
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I would like to ask the many Filipino people to pray together, to help each other so that we will be able to preserve the…
— Corazon Aquino
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I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the…
— Kenneth Koch
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a…
— James Schuyler
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You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to…
— Veronica Roth
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The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible…
— H.G. Wells
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The US government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be…
— Edward Snowden
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only…
— Mother Teresa
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I was asked why I did not give a rod with which to fish, in the hands of the poor, rather than give the fish…
— Mother Teresa
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I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Lent is like a long 'retreat' during which we can turn back into ourselves and listen to the voice of God, in order to defeat…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
— George Bernard Shaw
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating…
— William Banting
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You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
— Sylvia Plath
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The idea that a…
— Stephen Spender
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Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and…
— Billy Gibbons
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In today’s world, however, the number of children in a family is a matter of profound public concern. The law regulates other highly personal matters.…
— John Holdren
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only…
— Martin Luther
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It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able…
— Alan Turing
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The man who is ... physically able to handle pig-iron and is sufficiently ... stupid to choose this for his occupation is rarely able to…
— Frederick Winslow Taylor
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The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.
— Clara Hughes
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There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun; and those…
— Paracelsus
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I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was…
— Jon Bon Jovi
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Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by any unfavorable evidence.…
— Karl Popper
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What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem?
— Michel Serres
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