Capable Quotes
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
In the pressure cooker of a TV show, it’s a little bit of a witches’ brew. I completely think I’m capable of being crazy. I probably was crazy when I was doing 'The Simpsons'.
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
The universe is then one, infinite, immobile. ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.
Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.
The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.
Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.
We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist.
You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.
The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.
Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.
It is only because a person has volitions of the second order that he is capable both of enjoying and of lacking freedom of the will.
When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.
Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
Humbert was perfectly capable of intercourse with Eve, but it was Lilith he longed for.
I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Courage is like the diamond,--very brilliant; not changed by fire, capable of high polish, but except for the purpose of cutting hard bodies useless.
Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient
I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.
Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.
We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
The first essential in a boy's career is to find out what he's fitted for, what he's most capable of doing and doing with a relish.
Atheists in C.S. Lewis' day were as snobbish and arrogant as they are now, but better educated and more capable of debate.
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.
A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.