Able Quotes

• The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

  

  Virat Kohli
  • Able
  • Century
  • Score

• Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

  

  William H. Wharton
  • Nature
  • Land
  • States

• We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you." No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Truth
  • Taken
  • Ideas

• The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Able
  • Posterity

• All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.

  

  Nicholas Charles Goepper
  • People
  • Influence
  • Exciting

• A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Say
  • Able

• O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • War
  • Saint

• It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Enough
  • Certain
  • Communicate

• I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

  

  Hank Williams III
  • Wanted
  • Achieve
  • Tough

• I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Want
  • Band
  • Shows

• Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.

  

  William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
  • Character
  • Doe
  • Direct

• All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

  

  Shooter Jennings
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Feels

• The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.

  

  William Banting
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Pleasure

• I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Power
  • Freedom

• I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.

  

  Zazie Beetz
  • Myself
  • Able
  • Day-to-day

• Something sacred, that's it. We ought to be able to say that such and such a painting is as it is, with its capacity for power, because it is "touched by God."

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • God
  • Power
  • Painting

• I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Nice
  • Feels
  • Negativity

• I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been able to shake that.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Able
  • Crevice

• It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Age
  • Pain

• I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.

  

  Alexander Acosta
  • Play
  • Break
  • Courses

• The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

  

  Rumi
  • Become
  • Hear
  • Quieter

• I do still love you. I don't love you enough to be able to give you the things we dreamed about and planned.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Love
  • Give
  • Still

• Ronald Reagan reached out to Gorbachev. At the same time, we were pushing back against the Soviets all over the world. He was able to do two things at once, and it worked out very well for us.

  

  Daniel Fried
  • World
  • Pushing
  • Gorbachev

• One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Different
  • Interesting

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