Able Quotes

I think it was a good challenge for me to get my reactions across without being able to speak.

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

I've never had a divorce, but I've seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can't write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I'm able to kind of express it, or their joy.

In what way can a revelation be made but by miracles? In none which we are able to conceive.

I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it.

I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

I influenced the BG style by not being able to draw perspective. The BG artists developed cool graphic painting styles to make my bad backgrounds look like they were that way on purpose.

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.

I've never been able to feel that there is anything undignified about making your living by the sweat of your brow.

Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications.

I always thought writing was the foundation and the basis for journalism in the same way being able to draw is the foundation for art.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself.

Unless we rise to the challenge, instead of American youth being able to live the American dream, the Chinese will fulfill their dream of overtaking America.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

You know, once somebody knows you can sing Elphaba, it's like being able to sing Evita - people shut up about it already.

I think if progressives stay at this, continue at the grassroots level to make the case that all Americans should have choice, all Americans ought to be able to hold insurance companies accountable, I think we will have 60 votes in the United States Senate for a strong bill.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.