Able Quotes - Page 128

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.

The biggest compliment to me is being able to dress so many different women from so many different backgrounds.

Everyone needs to be able to have their own space in which to be themselves.

This time, I whispered that I loved him too. Then, I silently listed all the reason: I loved him for his gentleness. I loved him for being an amazing catch yet still vulnerable enough to be insecure. But most of all, I loved him for loving me.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

Ronaldo is a disgrace to the game. His petulance, temperament, throwing himself on the ground. It was a disgrace to professional football. This fella Ronaldo is a cod.

If ever a player was out of his class that night it was me.

Found out. A nothing player.

He's fat and a clown, Bill, a fat clown for all to see.

Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

The best player I've ever played against is Kobe Bryant. I have seen him do some stuff that is just unbelievable.

You may not be able to measure God's love, but you can certainly experience it.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

The more able a man is, if he make ill use of his abilities, the more dangerous will he be to the commonwealth.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.