Capable Quotes

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.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

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.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

Most of all, we should remember all of us are capable of individually helping advance the spirit of equality for all.

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.

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.

A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

If my training goes well and according to plan I feel that I am capable of a top 8 finish in Athens. It will be a very difficult and technical course which will be to my advantage.

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.