Able Quotes - Page 136

[Magic] Johnson is seriously remarkable, in terms of what he has accomplished in his profession and outside of his profession as well.

Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do.

Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.

The hypothesis of surviving intelligence and personality - not only surviving but anxious and able with difficulty to communicate - is the simplest and most straightforward and the only one that fits all the facts.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.

Whenever I get married, I start buying Gourmet magazine.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.

The Universe is inevitable. The Universe is impossible

Man is able, and has the duty, to reach the furthest point on the road he has chosen. Only by means of hope can we attain what is beyond hope.

So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Fragility is the quality of things that are vulnerable to volatility.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

Most great leaders are also great communicators. Great leaders have learned how to persuade so their objectives can be reached. The most powerful device to persuade is story. Stating facts and figures is not memorable. Emotionally connecting your audience to your idea through story will move them.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

Consistency is only suitable for ridicule.

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.