Capable Quotes

I believe that history is capable of anything. There exists no folly that men have not tried out.

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

even though the dead are beyond our touch, they remain fully dimensional, fully capable of affecting our decisions and quandaries.

Men are capable of talking hours on end over only one subject; women do it and don't even require a subject.

A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Any cell, tissue, or organ is capable of crying for attention, and when you give it some, the healing process begins.

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

things which in my mind blossom will stumble beneath a clumsiest disguise appear capable of fragility and indecision

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

The problems we face are human problems and therefore are capable of human solutions.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

Far from being hostile to religion is capable of rendering religion important services.

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others. . . .

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Is there such a thing as a man-made stroke? In other words, did someone do this to (Democratic Senator Tim Johnson)? ...I know what this [Republican] party is capable of.

In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

We are more capable of turning around our global health crisis than we think.

You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

I would never want to be a trend-spotter, in any field. I just think I would be bad at it. I have very limited range, in terms of the tone of the show, that I'm capable of making.

The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.

If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating.

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

There are moments in your life when you see yourself through someone else’s eyes, when your only hope of believing you’re capable of doing something is because someone else believes it for you.

Be the most wonderful expression of you that you're capable of.

When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

If you educate children, then they are capable of so much - you empower them, you give them choices, and you enable them to create the lives that they dream for themselves.

Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Only someone who can say 'I love you' is capable of saying 'I forgive you.

So, regardless of what they do, we have to play like we’re capable of playing. That’s a greater challenge in itself, but that’s really what we’re after.

The less we move, the less we are capable of moving.

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.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

No disability or dictionary out there, is capable of clearly defining who we are as a person.

I just don't believe you're capable of being an actor unless you have a desire to experience your emotions in a public way.

If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.