Able Quotes - Page 105

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.

And I will never, ever respond to anybody - man, woman, vegetable, or mineral - who tells me to keep my mouth shut.

We have the authority to take action, but responsible authority means not only being able to take action, but knowing when and how to take that action.

I want to do stuff that excites me and is enjoyable.

I have had, in my time, memorable meals of scrambled eggs with fresh truffles, scrambled eggs with caviar and other glamorous things, but to me, there are few things as magnificent as scrambled eggs, pure and simple, perfectly cooked and perfectly seasoned.

I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that.

There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.

The fridge had been emptied of all Dudley’s favorite things — fizzy drinks and cakes, chocolate bars and burgers — and filled instead with fruit and vegetables and the sorts of things that Uncle Vernon called “rabbit food.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.

If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.

God is love, but get it in writing.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

[Eva Braun] loved [Adolf Hitler]. She would have done that had she been able to spend 10 minutes with him. She endured a lot on his behalf, there's a great deal on that subject to be said.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated.