Able Quotes - Page 106

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it.

I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.

I want it all and I want it now.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.

Most people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom.

Control all the variables you can... don't worry about the rest.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

Never take more than your share - whether of the road in driving your car, of chairs on a boat or seats on a train, or food at the table.

I quickly realized that more than any other vegetable, the potato evokes strong reactions in people. As the head of communications for the International Potato Centre in Peru put it, 'No one gets worked up over lettuce like they do the potato.'

Put your 'yes' on the table and let God put it on the map.

With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: "I allow this moment to be as it is". And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

I feel cheated never being able to know what it's like to get pregnant, carry a child and breast-feed.

Cooking and baking are pleasures and I want everyone to be able to experience and share them.

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible.

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love.

Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little.

When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

The frying pan you should give to your enemy. Food should not be prepared in fat. Our bodies are adapted to a stone age diet of roots and vegetables.

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Now do you see why war irritates me? It's always the same. A lot of people get killed, but in the end, the whole thing is settled at the conference table. The notion of having the conference first doesn't seem to occur to people.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.