Able Quotes - Page 154

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I'm trying to make sure that there's comedy as well as sadness. It makes the sadness more memorable.

The greatest contribution to the Mexican table imaginable

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

Leadership is making happen what wouldn't happen anyway and this always entails working at the edge of what is acceptable

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

If you hear an old parable and you don't believe it, it's mythology. If you hear an old parable and you believe it, it's religion.

I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't been able to hear.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

The other three incoming calls were from his building superintendent, his pharmacy and a telephone survey company." "Bastards. They always call during dinner." Liv laughed as I slid the sliced steak onto a platter and topped it with sautéed vegetables. "Forget crime lords and corrupt politicians - telemarketers are the root of all evil." "Now you're getting it.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man. [Lat., In totum jurare, nisi ubi necesse est, gravi viro parum convenit.]

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.