Able Quotes

Would you allow a people to come from somewhere else and occupy a part of the United States, and set up an independent state, and, after 50 years, you would not be able to stay on this land?

We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects.

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Playing in the National Football League, you're told, you know, where to be, when to be there, what to wear, how to be there. Being able to step away from that, I have an opportunity to look deeper into myself and look for what's real.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.

In being strict, you were able to control.

Whether I'm 40, 50 or 60, I'm going to be as physically strong as I am able.

Many people - and I think I am one of them - are more productive when they've had a little to drink. I find if I drink two or three brandies, I'm far better able to write.

You have to be able to risk your identity for a bigger future than the present you are living.

I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys.

Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

I draw all the time. Drawing is my backbone. I don't think a painter has to be able to draw, I just think that if you draw, you better draw well.

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?