Able Quotes - Page 151

We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.

Death and taxes are inevitable.

Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?

How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

It is only love which makes us acceptable to God.

The heart is the path to wisdom because it dares to be vulnerable in the presence of power

History is rarely made by reasonable men.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.

When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.

It's delicious to have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own feelings don't match theirs.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.

I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed.

I have an unswayable obsession with death. If there was a magical pill that one could take that would retire you from the world, I would take it.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.