Capable Quotes

• Manners are like zero in arithmetic. They may not be much in themselves, but they are capable of adding a great deal of value to everything else.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Great
  • May
  • Value

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

  

  Henry Norris Russell
  • Important
  • Religion
  • Hostile

• If I give someone a horsetail he will have no difficulty making a photographic enlargement of it - anyone can do that. But to observe it, to notice and discover its forms, is something that only a few are capable of.

  

  Karl Blossfeldt
  • Giving
  • Difficulty
  • Enlargement

• Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Blood
  • Sin

• There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

  

  Selma Lagerlof
  • Wise
  • Praise
  • Tastes

• Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Endurance
  • Adversaries
  • Prowess

• This is not some alarmist Orwellian scenario; it is here, now, financed by $20 billion last year and $15 billion more this year of federal money appropriated out of sheer fear. By creating the means to monitor 300 million visits to the United States yearly, this administration and a supine opposition are building a system capable of identifying, tracking and spying on 300 million Americans.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Mean
  • Building
  • Orwellian

• The Nirvana unplugged album was something we'd always knew we were capable of doing, but it was just a matter of doing it right.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Album
  • Capable
  • Nirvana

• I think Gary Johnson would be capable of being a good chief executive and yes a commander in chief - Aleppo to the contrary, notwithstanding.

  

  William Weld
  • Thinking
  • Capable
  • Gary

• Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to admit that we cannot understand, and since we cannot understand we must do the best we can with faith. which is our only talent. The greatest act of faith we are capable of is that of loving another more than we love ourselves, and occasionally we can be quite good at it.

  

  Barry Hughart
  • Brain
  • Talent
  • Darkness

• In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Judgment
  • Intention

• The universe has become not only conscious and aware of itself but capable in some respects of choosing its path into the future--though all three, the consciousness, the knowledge, and the choice, are dispersed over a vast crowd of beings, acting both individually and collectively.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Universe
  • Choices
  • Path

• I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

  

  Jeff Gutt Stone Temple Pilots
  • Want
  • Artist
  • Capable

• Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Enough

• I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.

  

  Rhys Darby
  • Creative
  • Casts
  • Ammunition

• I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

  

  Danielle Trussoni
  • Eyes
  • Fall
  • Childhood

• All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Warmth
  • Possesses

• I try not to think about marks, the first place or gold medal. The most important thing is to show what you are capable of on ice. The rest will come on its own.

  

  Evgeni Plushenko
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Gold

• One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

  

  Seth Lloyd
  • Universe
  • Performing
  • Digital

• If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.

  

  William Penn
  • Art
  • Death
  • Honest

• Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult.

  

  Catherine Crier
  • Children
  • Kind
  • Difficult

• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Courage
  • Madness
  • Capable

• If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

  

  Paul J. Meyer
  • Progress
  • Goal
  • Productivity

• Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Children
  • Feelings
  • Mask

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