Able Quotes - Page 100

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Every imperial agent wants to reduce what is possible to what is available.

A pear should come to the table popped with juice, Ripened in warmth and served in warmth. On terms Like these, autumn beguiles the fatalist.

I like myself as I am, more desiring than desirable.

I do think Russian foreign policy is very savvy. There's a need for great caution because the Russians are able to discreetly blackmail countries.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

If you believe then unbelievable things can sometimes be possible.

Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

Photographs may be more memorable than moving images, because they are a neat slice of time, not a flow. Each still photograph is a privileged moment turned into a slim object that one can keep and look at again.

I will never date an actor or a model. My family will never accept her. We are a middle class family, and an actress will never be able to gel with us.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

The album ['A Seat at the Table'] really feels like storytelling for us all and our family and our lineage.

Secrecy is as indispensable to human beings as fire, and as greatly feared.

My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.