Able Quotes

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

I wanted to prove that I could do something, so I made a short film. That was in fact my main concern, to be able to show that I could do one.

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

I wouldn't change Buffy for anything and I wouldn't change the course in which she has evolved but it is nice to be able to do something that is a little different.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

These funds will ensure that ports will be able to pay for adequate security measures to protect all Americans against terrorist attacks from our seaports.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in.

To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.

That is one of the things about going on tour, that I get to work with some really talented people and it allows me to be able to listen to them as well - and just have fun on stage.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm nailing it. I'm even kind of, at times, blowing my own mind, because I am even able to talk right now.

But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me towards directing, but I think it was a naive notion that if I directed I would be able to play all the roles. A kind of greed.

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a couple of his rallies and found out there were a bunch of young folks that there were a bunch of young folks that he had been able to recruit on his own.

France isn't just any country in Europe, and its president is not an ordinary leader in the world. Sometimes directing or leading the way is not enough, he has to initiate policies, as Nicolas Sarkozy was able to demonstrate during his term.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

There should be a background check every time a firearm is transferred. You shouldn't be able to go to a gun show and buy guns without a background check. There are Internet gun sales, classified ads in the newspapers - and you can buy guns without background checks.

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.