Able Quotes

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I think Maine needs people. It needs diversity. It needs to be able to respect people. Openness is crucial for this state because we don't want to be known for having the oldest state in the nation. We want young families.

One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of the argument - that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

To the extent that people overpay as a result of the Libor manipulation, they should be able to get their money back. Individuals who have mortgages, pension funds who had pensioner investments - whoever was ripped off is entitled to get their money back.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.

It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans!

But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.

We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.

I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!

At this very moment, I don't feel I will be able to handle what's coming.