Able Quotes

Where princes are concerned, a man who is able to do good is as dangerous and almost as criminal as a man who intends to do evil.

I never want to love someone like that, so much that there would be no room left for myself, so much that I wouldn't be able to survive if he left me.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily.

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

People trust that a guy who can bring up two kids on his own might be able to help them.

I've been fortunate over the years to have been on good teams and as a result I've been able to score some goals but I wouldn't say I'm great at it.

I think the thing I'm most excited about is the fact that I was able to, for the most part, change pitchers' mindsets about what kind of hitter I am.

I was able to complete a motocross track at my house, and that's something I've always enjoyed. That time away is really what developed the passion I needed to come back and compete.

When I tried to grasp at either what I love or what I hate, I destroyed the very ability of being able to really penetrate the essence of either. By trying to understand it, I would just crush it.

When I did do good stuff in the past, it was because I was able to transcend the parts of my being that weren't healthy.

It was a fortunate moment in history that I happened to be in. There was a confluence of the internet and all this other stuff that I was able to capitalize on.

You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.

Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.

I have actually been very fortunate to be able to make films on my own credit card without having huge funders behind me dictating how the story should be told.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

It's a real roller-coaster ride if you're lucky to have longevity in this business - you have to be able to ride those waves.

I think I'm a really good girlfriend, and I think that I could be a really good wife. I know that I love being able to give my love out to someone. I know there is somebody great out there for me.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

I just want to be able to do something that's interesting to me.

I just want to be able to be creative.

When I do retire, I know for a fact that I'll never be able to replace the incredible feeling I get when I'm driving an F1 car.

We think that helps bring it up to a place where our storyboard writers then get the opportunity to be able to take that energy and really bring it to the show. I credit that entirely to our cast.

We want to be able to let the audience get to know these folks. One of the things about The Avengers, over the last 50 years, is the fun of changing up the gang and bringing in new characters.

I mean, money people are usually quite brisk, but mine aren't, and they keep on giving me spaces so that I've been able to go on and do plays and films.

The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

I'm able to really enjoy the wonderful things happening to me and that's a great blessing.

I do think laughter is the most important thing, and being able to see the funny side of nearly anything is a crucial, crucial thing.

If my team isn't motivated, it's my fault. I can't consider myself the best of the best until my team is able to get out of the first round.

If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.

We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

As a fan, you want to be able to go to a football game, you want to feel secure, you want to be able to just watch the game, root for your team, and that's the way it should be.

I have gradually confused photography and life and as a result of this I believe I am able to work out of myself at an almost precognitive level.

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

You want to know my definition of gun control? Being able to stand there at 25 meters and put two rounds in the same hole. That's gun control.

It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.

I'm a Midwesterner! Not being able to have a cheeseburger once in a while would be torture!

As an actor, you wouldn't be able to play a character if you were worried about the reaction to what you're doing.

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.