Capable Quotes

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

Though I have had no adventures, I feel capable of them.

No woman that I know is capable of leaving her child down for thirty seconds. She can't walk away without making sure that everything is absolutely as secure and safe for her child as can be.

Everyone tells us you really don't know what you're capable of till you're in the middle of it.

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country.

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

I would never have supposed that inexperienced girl was capable of such cold-blooded, calculating manipulation!

The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.

America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

Keats himself spoke about how Shakespeare was capable of erasing himself completely from the characters he had created. As an actor, that is what I'm trying to do.

If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed.

Nothing is more important for the public wealth than to form and train youth in wisdom and virtue. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

You're not going to see a new Bernard Hopkins. I'm too old for that crap. I think what you will see is something different that I know I am capable of doing.

True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

Through the greatness of the universe, which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great, and becomes capable of that union with the universe which constitutes its highest good.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

If the Holy Spirit is capable of the heavy lifting required to get Pat Robertson to change his mind, then that strikes me as a very good sign.

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

I think of the church as this bride of Christ, who is incredibly capable of doing amazing things. And so where we see injustice, we come, not with fists clenched but with palms up.

The only thing I want to be able to do is come in and learn the offense, go out there and compete, show what I am capable of doing and try to get better as a football player.

Only men are capable of aesthetic greatness.

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

Paolo di Canio is capable of scoring the goal he scored.

I have gratitude. I know myself better. I feel more capable than ever. And as far as the physicality of it, I feel better at 40 than I did at 25.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves

What is Aldous capable of?" "Aldous is two thousands years old. He's capable of anything." "Aldous Nix is two thousands years old?" "So, I've heard. He doesn't invite me to his birthday parties.

There was a man who was worthless, and knew he was worthless, and yet however far down he tried to sink his soul, there was always some part of him capable of great action.

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

The genius of a man capable of explaining religion seems to me to be of a higher order than that of a founder of religion. And that is the glory to which I aspire.

How many women are ready to admit that they are capable of changing the course of their existence by simply taking time to think?

Men aren't as strong and capable as we are. We're machines.

I’m quite capable of walking,” she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.” They are not!

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Basically, the world is a giant shithole. But some of us are capable of imagining something better.

Both of us, me and Friedrich Nietzsche being writers, if we weren't capable of some strategic self-deception, we would have moved on to more lucrative careers long ago.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.