Able Quotes

If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links, you should not be able to buy a gun with no questions asked.

You've got to be willing to work, and if you're willing to work, you should be able to get ahead and stay ahead.

As president, I will take that work, that bipartisan work, that finding common ground, because you have to be able to get along with people to get things done in Washington.

A Wall Street money manager should not be able to pay a lower tax rate than a teacher or a nurse.

Because I support the Second Amendment doesn't mean that I want people who shouldn't have guns to be able to threaten you, kill you or members of your family.

People should be able to rise as hard, high as their hard work, their ambition, their talent will take them.

Here at home, for goodness's sakes, we have to finally pass a law prohibiting people on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in the United States of America.

We finally need to pass a prohibition on anyone who's on the terrorist watch list from being able to buy a gun in America. If you're too dangerous to fly, you are too dangerous to buy a gun.

I respect the second amendment and the right of individuals to own firearms. But I think that we all agree that there are some people who should not be able just to walk in and buy weapons of war.

I want to see more companies do profit-sharing. If you help create the profits, you should be able to share in them, not just the executives at the top.

I love performing so much! The joy is to have the opportunity to be able to perform all around the world.

There is what we desire to do, and what we are able to do. When those two things don't coincide, which path should we pursue to find happiness?

To be able to analyze plays and novels is so relevant to acting.

But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.

Mighty to inspire new hopes, and able to drown the bitterness of cares.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

Only a modern army will be able to fight a modern war.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

Humans are able to give very good feedback. You can't tell with an animal what they feel.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

By the time I got to high school I knew what I was gonna do. Mainly because I looked around and saw there wasn't much else I was able to do. I was a criminal. I was a juvenile delinquent.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

In environments where corporations become too interventionist and capture regulation themselves, the government must be able to battle back so that the people have a chance.

Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more.

I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

You know, I'm fifty-two now and I call myself a singer. Before I kick it I want to be able to carry a tune in a living room if called upon. Of course, mine come out all dark and twisted and weird.

I wouldn't be able to do anything with my vampire horde except make it run around in a herd, but it would be a very impressive herd.

Whatever you could do with your hands was important because it kept you in a motion of being able to produce something, and producing something kept you balanced in a way.

I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

I've always been a fan of science fiction films, and I've never been able to put my particular spin on it.