Ability Quotes - Page 17

If something is being done on a secret basis in national security, that's a great reason for elected officials to not talk about it. And that's a great way to shirk accountability for it with the public.

Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

The dialogue about sustainability is about a change in the human trajectory that will require us to rethink old assumptions and engage the large questions of the human condition that some presume to have been solved once and for all.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

It means a lot. It means I'm accountable.

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

You know, a lot of people feel that sobriety is about just stopping using whatever it was that you appeared to be addicted to, but it really has to do with a way of looking at your life and taking accountability.

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

Acknowledgment of torture is not accountability for it.

The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.

I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs.

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

Communism is a society where each one works according to his abilities and gets according to his needs.

No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.