Capable Quotes

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

In how many lives does love really play a dominant part? The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.

The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.

I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.

I know what I'm capable of; I am a soldier now, a warrior. I am someone to fear, not hunt.

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I am competing with what I am capable of.

The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

We are all capable of living each day with a fiery passion and sense of purpose that radiates in our smile and voice.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

Philosophers are capable of almost endless enjoyment of mutual misunderstanding.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

I know who I am, I know what I am capable of, I know who I trust.

If we want the most effective fighting force, we need to pick the most qualified capable man for the job, even if it's a woman.

I don't think you're as capable of handling lack of sleep or whatever challenges you throw at your body as you get older. However, I never missed a day of work.

I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me struggle, enemies, howling crowds, all the combot of which I am capable.

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

There's no doubt that after you eat a lot of garlic, you just kind of feel like you are floating, you feel ultra-confident, you feel capable of going out and whipping your weight in wild cats.

I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is

Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.

Capable people do not understand incapacity; clever people do not understand stupidity.

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

... there is no valid teaching from which there does not emerge something learned and through which the learner does not become capable of recreating and remaking what has been taught.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

I'm a huge fan of animation, and just the arts in general - anything that emanates from someone's mind and soul and is capable of touching other people's minds and souls.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.

Your brain does not understand what you are capable of. There is way more inside of you than you can imagine.

Don't be like those people who believe in "positive thinking" and tell themselves that they're loved and strong and capable. You don't need to do that because you know it already.

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own image upon them.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

No one should feel afraid of the unknown. Because everyone is capable of achieving everything he wants and needs.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Most human beings only scratch the surface of their real potential. They have no idea what they're capable of.