Capable Quotes
2237 quotes by 1598 authors
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There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem…
— Mira Grant
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Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?
— Jodi Picoult
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the…
— Rachel Carson
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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
— Deb Caletti
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I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the…
— Paulo Coelho
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By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism
— David Gemmell
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Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
— Sarah Dessen
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is important for knitters to know two things about frogging: that cats are capable of this knitting action, and even seem to enjoy it…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of.…
— Bono
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There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of…
— George MacDonald
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Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.
— Stephen King
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I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered…
— Nicole Krauss
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Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.
— Markus Zusak
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Only children believe they're capable of everything.
— Paulo Coelho
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Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together but draws them…
— Anton Chekhov
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