Able Quotes - Page 115

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions.

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

The books that are really valuable are the books that evoke a sense of place.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.

My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

Anyone who finds himself putting down several commas close to one another should reflect that he is making himself disagreeable.

Silence alone is respectable and respected. I believe God to be silence.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Your superhuman power was to be able not to feel. Is it there inside everybody, this self that comes out while you are in captivity? You become the closest approximation of yourself that can tolerate living there.

He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the void inside me. But I wasn’t able to fill the void inside her. Until the bitter end, the emptiness inside her was hers alone.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Man's chief moral deficiency appears to be not his indiscretions but his reticence.

I always wanted to have my own farm. I've never been able to achieve that. It's kinda tough.

Luckily, my children love broccoli, and although we sometimes enter into UN-like negotiations about how many 'trees' they need to eat before they can partake of ice cream, it is a vegetable that they tend to embrace.

Thirteen at a table is unlucky only, when the hostess has only twelve chops.

I always had the uncomfortable feeling that if I wasn't sitting in front of a computer typing, I was wasting my time - but I pushed myself to take a wider view of what was "productive." Time spent with my family and friends was never wasted.

I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

I have more influence now than when I had the power.

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight - for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created.

I have a lot of fruit trees and my own little vegetable garden and chickens. And every time I eat, I bless my food; I say I'm grateful for for it and let it nourish every part of my body.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

He is an example of a La Masia player. Technically he is unbelievable.