Capable Quotes
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God is waiting and anxious to pour out blessings, and glory, and honor, and exaltation upon his people, far more than we have ever received, and far more than we are capable of receiving; and the only reason we have not received it long ago is because there was no place found for it.
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Mathematics is the most exact science, and its conclusions are capable of absolute proof. But this is so only because mathematics does not attempt to draw absolute conclusions. All mathematical truths are relative, conditional. In E. T. Bell Men of Mathematics, New York: Simona and Schuster, 1937.
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From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.
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And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in their pores then in free spaces, & so much ye rarer as their pores are less ... 3. I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another.
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Sharon is capable of making peace.
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Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.
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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
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It is the greatest folly of which a man can be capable to sit down with a slate and pencil to plan out a new social world.
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There are millions of animal species, but man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.
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Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.
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Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!
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Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
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Pop stars are capable of growing old. Mick Jagger at 50 will be marvelous - a battered old roue - I can just see him. An aging rock star doesn't have to opt out life. When I'm 50, I'll prove it.
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so.
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I'm capable of having big nights. My thing is to be as efficient as possible.
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I don't think I'm capable of making radical changes, but over a period of four or five years you can perceive very big changes, and they seem rather small at the time.
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If we do not let people do things the way they do, we will never know what they are really capable of and they will just follow our boarding school rules.
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I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.
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It seems to be unfathomable to people that I just happen to be 49 and look good. I am totally capable of accepting myself.
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Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.
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Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.
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Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.
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She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.
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"I would call him an ordinary man, but, well." Another grin. "Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement."
