Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until…
— Jean Liedloff
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What really matters when facing a challenge? What matters is learning. You want to test yourself, throw yourself into something outside your comfort zone and…
— Arno Hintjens
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The Brightwood Stillness is a novel I could not put down. On the surface, it is the lives of normal people in trying circumstances. Deeper,…
— Andrew X. Pham
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Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds of…
— Nguyen Qui Duc
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Nobody is fit to rule anybody else. It is not alleged that Mankind is perfect, or that merely through his/her natural goodness (or lack of…
— Albert Meltzer
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Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of
— Louise Hay
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The apologist is most entrusted with apologetics when capable of arguing his opponent's position better than his opponent.
— Criss Jami
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It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render…
— Criss Jami
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As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But there's also something about it that every time you really feel like you're doing it…
— Brit Marling
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Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the…
— Charles de Lint
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Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being , and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The very object of an art, the principle of its artifice, is precisely to impart the impression of an ideal state in which the man…
— Paul Valery
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There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea…
— John Dryden
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For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only; mere information is…
— Charlotte Mason
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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.
— Donald Miller
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Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one…
— Blaise Pascal
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Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a…
— Paul Westerberg
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Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things.…
— David Gelernter
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I'd never seen Marcello [Mastroianni] truly in love with a woman. I called him "the man who couldn't love." He was capable of enormous amounts…
— Giovanna Cau
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