Able Quotes

An Olympic medal won't define my whole life, although it might look like it to onlookers. When I look back, I should have been able to get an Olympic medal.

It's in the present that lies the secret: if you pay attention to the present you will be able to enhance it.

Esther, however, was the only woman who understood one very simple thing: in order to be able to find her, I first had to find myself.

Anyone who has known happiness will never again be able humbly to accept sadness.

A responsible Warrior is one who has proved able to observe and to learn.

If only we could be enlightened enough to be able to listen in the silence.

For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: “I lived”. Because they haven’t.

The Comedy Store attracts all types of people, growing up I was able to meet them all.

Mainly, I feel very fortunate to be able to do what I love.

Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.

Keep the boss aware. Bosses, after all, are held responsible by their own bosses for the performance of their subordinates. They must be able to say: "I know what Anne [or John] is trying to do."

I think I've been able to be in some really good projects with some really good people.

Being able to play a role where you're there almost every day and you're just in it... I remember it was a whirlwind, but it was a lot of fun.

That's a big battle to win, to be able to do a main title sequence and a theme song these days. That's not something network television does anymore.

The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

Without constantly pushing my senior colleagues to formulate decisions, I would never be able to learn and know what they are made of.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.

We have in Tennessee a number of wonderful faith-based clinics to serve the uninsured. It is an important principle with them that everyone pays something as they are able.

If Stalin ever told me to urinate, I'm not sure I'd be able to.

The best thing that I think happened to me was I got the opportunity to have really good players and we were able to meet the demand of the competition. And I think that's what I value most.

When you get older and you start dating, I want you to be able to say one thing, 'I made a hook.'

Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

If Jesus had never lived, we would not have been able to invent him.

You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.

I'm fortunate in being able to find great satisfaction in my work.

Choose a checked or striped wall paper. People will be halfway home before they are able to focus.

I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

Setrakus is more or less invincible. Only Pittacus Lore, the most powerful of all the Lorien Elders, would have been able to defeat him.

At this point in my life, I'm probably not gonna be able to stop writing because it's gonna help me be able to do what I need to do.

What is sad is not to be able to do today what you have done in your youth. But what is good is to remember that - when you were able - you did it to the best of your ability.

Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

It hurts because you want to try to get out there and help the team win, and I wasn't able to do that. Injuries are part of the game, but I'm over that now, hopefully.

Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities.

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting.

I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.

And nobility will not be able to help you with your love; Love does not know how to cede to ancestral images.

Films are very influential, and I especially feel a responsibility to tell stories that have been pushed aside. Being able to shed light on issues that need to be brought to the world.

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees.

I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.