Able Quotes

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.

Romania will not be able to evolve if it continues to take cruel decisions against sensitive creatures, which are under the protection of European law.

You gotta be able to change worlds.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film.

If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I have never had a problem with people not being able to understand the words and the meanings in Titus.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.

This election is a critical step in that overall plan - transforming the Iraqi government into a fully constitutional one, able to secure its own borders and ensure the safety of its citizens.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and the like that they thought were bad or harmful or even against the government and try to block them.

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

People who eat potatoes will never be able to perform their abilities in whatever job they choose to have.

One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

When I turned pro, Muhammad Ali was laying back, and I was able to fill up an area that was empty.