Able Quotes - Page 122

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team.

I've never been able to contemplate failure. Success is everything.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Just be comfortable in your own skin. And that's how you can be the sexiest woman that you can possibly be.

I cannot imagine what an influence a five-week trip to the Orient had on me. I mean, the culture, the absorption of the Japanese way of life, the Japanese way of thinking, the discipline. The entire thing was an extraordinary experience. So these were more than memorable things to me.

Art will never be able to exist without nature.

The most adorable thing about Toronto is that she remains fiercely aloof and indifferent to the fads and entrepreneurial fevers of her lovers. She is intractably herself, admissive to the most vagrant, sober in a way that gets misinterpreted as stodginess. Her generosity extends to the meek as well as the gold diggers. Mercifully, she doesn't give a hoot about our portraits of her, but just waits, patiently, for our affection and citizenship.

Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.

Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.

What valuable company is nobody building?

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.

it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

About 47 percent of able-bodied people in the state of Maine don’t work.

In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?

The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.

Being able to find a compromise is about being brave and serving France.

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.