Capable Quotes
- Page 5A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.
Steve Prefontaine
I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.
Marcus Allen
I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
Sean Bean
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Al Gore
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.
David Cassidy
In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes
If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.
Jacques Chirac
Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.
Faye Dunaway
Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.
Ted Allen
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
Victor Francis Hess
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
Daniel Ellsberg
We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing.
Richard Powers
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
Christian Lous Lange
The brave and capable women who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have performed admirably.
Susan Davis
I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.
Howard Coble
The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van Creveld
I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.
Harrison Ford
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing
Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.
Horace
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
John Ralston Saul
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.
Gunter Grass
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.
William Wordsworth
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.
Simone de Beauvoir