Capable Quotes
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
K. A. Applegate
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
Rachel Weisz -
We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Albert Einstein -
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke -
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail.
Myrtle Reed -
I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
Yanis Varoufakis -
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
Oscar Wilde
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein -
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan -
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.
Damon Hill -
It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen.
Aristotle -
When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.
Danielle Trussoni -
You'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
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The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
Yvon Chouinard -
Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life.
Fidel Castro -
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
Viktor E. Frankl -
Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.
Aristotle -
The development of the Vertebrate proceeds from an axis upward, in two layers, which coalesce at the edges, and also downward, in two layers, which likewise coalesce at the edges. Thus two main tubes are formed, one above the other. During the formation of these, the embryo separates into strata, so that the two main tubes are composed of subordinate tubes which enclose each other as fundamental organs, and are capable of developing into all the organs.
Karl Ernst von Baer
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I'm definitely capable of just enjoying riding my bike these days.
Victoria Pendleton -
Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone -
Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.
Anthony Rapp -
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.
H. L. Mencken