Able Quotes

If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

When I left Merrill Lynch, one of the things that upset me the most wasn't losing my job. It was not being able to see those people the following day. It was almost like divorcing 40 people.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

I like when my man is worldly, knows the finer things in life, is well traveled, educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems!

I wanted a NBA basketball gym at my house and that's what I worked hard for and I was able to achieve that.

Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.

They think that, if we were just smart enough, we'd be able to understand their policies. And I so want to tell 'em, and I do tell 'em, Oh, we're plenty smart, oh yeah - we know what's goin' on. And we don't like what's goin' on. And we're not gonna let them tell us to sit down and shut up.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

My journey has been so full of struggle and I just want to be able to offer some help and some general ideas to people that really need it the most.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it.

A big part of being an actress specifically is feeling entitled to your artistic opinion, feeling that it means something, and being able to stand by it.

I was able to get along with everybody. I really enjoyed all of those guys. They were unique in their own ways, and I think that's what made the sport fun. We had a great time laughing and having fun.

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.

Buddha's teaching are very simple, you don't have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha's teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

But I will agree that I think that things happen with people in relationships, that you might have been able to enjoy Morocco, say, if you weren't getting out of a bad marriage. You know what I mean?

But the main things about a man are his eyes and his feet. He should be able to see the world and go after it.