Capable Quotes

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

If you never try, you'll never know what you are capable of.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

We had an awfully good ball club that was capable of beating anybody. They were that good.

Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.

I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I feel like I'm capable of doing so many things to help people around the country and the world.

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.