Able Quotes - Page 103

The farther north you go, the fewer fruits and vegetables there are. What kind of apple trees do you suggest the Inuit get their apples from? And how much oil is expended transporting such things out there? It's an equation.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable.

Red beans and ricely yours.

A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.

I have family in Ponce. It's a shame that my grandfather passed and I wasn't able to be there with him.

One sits uncomfortably on a too comfortable cushion.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words.

You just witnessed something I've never seen in my entire life. They just called that team (Tennessee) the winner. They said whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, (whistles) come back here. Then they called us the winner. I'm a tell you right now as an experience, dammit, I'm going to enjoy that one as much as I hate to admit it.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Well, the people I've known I must say are extraordinary. When I think about some of them, I can't believe that I knew them all. And I think the reason I knew most of them at the beginning was because they were of Bogie's generation, 25 years my senior, not mine. But they were the most talented people of all.

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is.

The thing you want to be able to do is to be well-liked when you retire. I know right now I'm not close to retiring, and I'm not close to being liked.

A miserable, self-destructive, death rocker...better to burn out than to fade away.

Hip-Hop is being spoken through spirituality... Meaning that you'll be able to listen to it spiritually for yourself.

You are not in business to be popular.

An untested faith is an unreliable faith.