Capable Quotes

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His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to… — Robert A. Heinlein
A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge… — Tom Stoppard
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is… — Richard Dawkins
I want to throw up because we're supposed to quietly and politely make house in this killing machine called America and pay taxes to support… — David Wojnarowicz
Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did. — Paulo Coelho
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of… — Ezra Pound
You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done! — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no… — Jane Austen
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things… — Jonathan Franzen
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for. — Vladimir Nabokov
I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold. — Albert Camus
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous… — Gregory Maguire
... A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said: 'That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?' Then I read a malenky bit… — Anthony Burgess
You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me… — Nicholas Sparks
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This… — Gao Xingjian
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an… — Barack Obama
it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative… — John Keats
However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch â€“ American flag place mats, patriotic â€œbody crystals,â€ flag… — Sarah Vowell

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