Capable Quotes

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I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I… — Maurice Sendak
I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not… — Shakira
Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group. — Peter Singer
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. — Samuel Smiles
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down.… — Todd Solondz
I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which… — Kevin Spacey
The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in… — Richard Steele
I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others. — George Stevens
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and… — J. Michael Straczynski
If... many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame… — Margaret Thatcher
At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable… — Charlize Theron
Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad. — Lewis Thomas
In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course… — Lewis Thomas
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. — Henry David Thoreau
Vince McMahon is one of the greatest storytellers of all time, but WWE's not striving for the kind of innovation it's capable of. — Gary Vaynerchuk
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men… — Alice Walker
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to… — Horace Walpole
If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on… — Steven Weber

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