Capable Quotes

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.

No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

I feel like I was the only person who was capable of making this type of music in this type of way. I don't rap like nobody, I don't try to sound like nobody.

Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

I counted on sixty days only, but I held out for 133. I didn't go into power, but to get power I borrowed some power from the President and made him sign a number of decrees and give me enough power to create a system capable of handling crisis situations.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.

If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

Children between the ages of five to ten years are even more variable. They are going to vary from very high functioning, capable of doing normal school work, to nonverbal who have all kinds of neurological problems.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.