Able Quotes - Page 149

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.

How use doth breed a habit in a man.

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble.

When a whole system is composed of a numbers of subsystems, the one that tends to dominate is the least stable.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

That which is possible is inevitable.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

In my photography, color and composition are inseparable. I see in color.

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

Everything that you are against works against you. Everything that you are against can be restated in a way that puts you in support of something. When you are able to state what you are for rather than what you are against, you are focusing on the potential for positive change. Once that is in place, you will find whatever you are focusing on expanding.

The evidence that folic acid reduces the risk of heart disease is pretty strong. [...] And fruits and vegetables are a major source of folic acid.

Melancholy is not one of my emotions. Quite seriously, I don't do melancholy. It's a miserable way to be.

Colour is as variable and evanescent in the form of pigment as in visible nature.

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

I always say that, like a scientist or anyone, you always want to be the problem-solver. You feel like, if you solve the greatest mystery or the greatest problem, then that makes you brilliant. It's the same thing with an actress. You want to be able to really tackle a character and make it a fully-dimensional human being who is complicated, funny and all the things that a person could be.

I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

Look don’t sit there behind the computer like a useless vegetable and tell me how to train