Capable Quotes

Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

It can't be stressed enough that in order to produce great graphics, you have to have a good product and a good client capable of making decisions.

To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.

They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic.

No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.

The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.