Quotes About Able

All men are scoundrels and I am happy to be able to do more than hate them: now I despise them.

O tribe of [spirits] and of men, if you are able to pass through the confines of heaven and earth, pass through them! You shall not pass through them except with [the Lord's] authority.

You're able to do things in novels: introduce subplots, other characters, thematic layers and so on, in a way that you simply can't in a movie. A movie really has to choose its battles.

And this is   the origin of freewill, that Adam wished to be independent, [124] and   dared to try what he was able to do.

Beautiful is the moment in which we understand that we are no more than an instrument of God; we live only as long as God wants us to live; we can only do as much as God makes us able to do; we are only as intelligent as God would have us be.

I hope she never needs heart surgery, because the doctor wouldn't be able to find it.

it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...

An hasty fortune maketh an enterpriser and remover ... but the exercised fortune maketh the able man.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

The whole idea of deterrence is to convince your enemy that you are willing and able to make it so painful for them to continue on a threatening or bellicose course that they change their behavior.

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening

Epicurus old questions are yet unanswered. Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil? Cleanthes

I'm not handy.

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

Certainly I was a bully. I'm not ashamed of it at all. The hostility of the establishment to what you were able to do in the Forties and Fifties was very strong. Sometimes you have to fight against your society.

What sort of signal does a college diploma send to a potential employer? That its holder is willing and able to complete all sorts of drawn-out, convoluted tasks.

For the next great Brewers team, he can provide a link to those guys. He is able to do that and he does a good job of it. And

I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.

I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.

The next time you fear the future, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

Yes, yes, no one denies, for example, that you're going to be able to fix the Murray through the Living Murray process without money, no one denies that.

It was a refined sort of bottled fury that had the potential to be devastatingly violent, and yet at the same time he was also a man able to control it.