Capable Quotes

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer.

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

I really want to keep at it until I find out what I'm capable of.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

As proud and capable as it is, I think the idea that the military can build new countries is a tall order, and it's the sort of thing that we would only expect from a military that we have superresourced and thought of as supercapable.

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.

Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.

Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that I certainly believe in equal rights, I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so in a lot of different dimensions, but I don't, I think have, sort of, the militant drive and the sort of, the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.