Able Quotes

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

In a discussion, the difficulty lies, not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it.

I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

I know that nurses are not only the largest healthcare profession but are responsible for the delivery of most healthcare, and are often in the best place to be able to see the whole pathway of care.

If I'm serious about patients and their GPs being able to have more control of their health care, I can't have a top-down system that imposes restrictions on the services they need.

I was able to make many different kinds of movies. They enriched me on many different levels.

I have the incredibly good fortune of being able to make the majority of the work I produce in the world on my own with no one bothering me. It really comes entirely out of me.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present

I had always been able to make people laugh in school, so I really developed that and worked on it and I got pretty good at it and it turned into a career.

You ought to be able to wear your character like a Lycra bodysuit.

As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

It's pretty high up there on the list. Being able to return a serve at that speed is one of the biggest things that separates the professionals from the recreational players.

American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.

I think somebody should be able to do all my paintings for me.

I think if you're able to do over the course of your career 20, 30, 50 very wonderful rich characters, you'd rather have that than an Oscar.

My dream: to be able to drive a virus-powered car.

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me.

In a way, by being fully committed to the Olympic movement globally, I'm better able to promote women's hockey and talk about women's hockey and put a face to women's hockey, to all the IOC members.

I'm able to give a voice to the athletes around the world - use my degree for something other than the power play.

The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them.

As a director, I hoped that I was able to help the actors by giving them the space and the respect they need and the trust. I gave them what I always felt I needed when I was working.

I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.

Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

In the end, I want to be able to say, 'My life was what I made it.

My cancer allowed me to explore who I really was. Now I feel like a woman who's able to handle whatever life has dealt her.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.

I love it when people are able to interpret thoughts and feelings on fabric or some kind of material.

I feel incredibly successful. I make a living as a writer and am able to help support a big family, my church, my bleeding-heart causes.

In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

The schematics are a little bit tricky, but once you get it down you're able to really program an entire show. Every song has a lot of different guitar sounds in it, so that's what it is.

The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

I don't like to just have a repetitive life where I do the same thing over and over. I love to be able to learn something new, explore something new.

Anyone would be able to be played by someone like him [Donald Trump], that's what he did, he played people.

I love the long-form format of television. I love being able to develop a character, over a long period of time.

I like being able to be a man.