Able Quotes - Page 114

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

The element of surprise wasn't allowed near the Periodic Table.

Knowing that one may be subject to bias is one thing; being able to correct it is another.

Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

Eating vegetables makes me feel good.

You know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?

The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

Redundancy is expensive but indispensable.

When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

Navigation is easy. If it wasn't, they wouldn't be able to teach it to Sailors.

The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.