Able Quotes
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I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.
Geert Wilders
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
William Hazlitt
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There is no country... where there are not somewhere lovers of freedom who look to this country to carry the torch and keep it burning bright until such time as they may again be able to light their extinguished torches at our flame. We owe it not only to our own people but to the world to preserve our soul for that.
Stanley Baldwin
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A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.
William Lewis Safir
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Er, I say, are you going to be able to get me out?
Eric Shipton
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I had set a goal with my team to try and get back to the top of the rankings, but I never thought with the depth in the game this year that I would have been able to get it back so quickly.
Roger Federer
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Seth Lloyd
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Pro Tools is an incredible resource. I think it's enabled me to do things that I wouldn't have been able to do without this kind of computer editing.
Sufjan Stevens
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Light-skinned black people are seen to be closer to white people. The allegiance to lighter-skinned people has operated in a very destructive way that we have internalized ourselves inside black communities. You look at many of the prominent black people in this society who have been able to do well. Many have been lighter-skinned.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Faith in Christ is able to endure doubts-it's able to endure temptations-bec ause it faces them, not because it pretends they're not there.
Michael Horton
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In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion.
Mother Teresa
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To be able to proclaim the Good News to the poor we must know what is poverty.
Mother Teresa
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We live in a democracy and I do not understand why highly respected scientists from top international branches are not able express themselves!
Nina Hagen
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The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.
Herbie Hancock
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Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
Ricardo Lagos
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God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.
Paul Coffey
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We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us.
Mother Teresa
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Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.
Nigel Barker
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Whenever you're doing film for television and you look at the budget that you have, which is much more constricted than a movie budget, you think, "God, are they going to be able to do what they say they are?"
Rhys Ifans
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The state of Israel must, from time to time, prove clearly that it is strong, and able and willing to use force, in a devastating and highly effective way. If it does not prove this, it will be swallowed up, and perhaps wiped off the face of the earth.
Moshe Sharett
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I look at old interviews and things and they say, 'What do you want to do when you grow up?' I say, 'I want to be a producer.' And I'm really fortunate that I was able to do it.
Shaun Cassidy
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There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do; there are movements that are involuntary proofs of what the soul feels.
Vittorio Alfieri