Able Quotes
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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Two things people throughout history have had in common are hatred and humour. I am proud that I have been able to use humour to lessen people's hatred.
Richard Pryor
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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
William James
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Obviously I'd love to have kids and all that. Luckily, as a man, there's not such an egg timer on it, but I'd like to be able to pick them up without Nurofen first.
Tom Hollander
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I very easily could have popped it up, but I was able to square it up and we get out of here with another win.
Craig Biggio
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
Carroll Quigley
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I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that Im fighting a thousand people.
Roz Chast
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Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.
Neil Patel
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Democrats are ready, willing, and able to provide regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
Sherrod Brown
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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
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I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.
Michael Gove
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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.
Barack Obama
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Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
Georges St-Pierre
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
Warren Jeffs
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the collective effort of shaping their economic society, now expect fortune to descend like pie from the sky.
Max Lerner
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I think we are able to keep active provided we approach our lives with creativity. I think the mere fact that we keep doing is self-creating.
Jessica Tandy
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The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.
Paul Banks Interpol
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Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find.
Simon Sinek
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Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
Terry Zwigoff
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In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."
Paul Auster
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Helen Keller
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Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.
Serena Williams