Able Quotes - Page 22

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

The streets are full of admirable craftsmen, but so few practical dreamers.

Walk away from it until you're stronger, All your problems will be there when you get back, but you'll be better able to cope.

I'm particularly fortunate to be in a position where I can bring my child to work and be able to get good child care. Not a lot of women have that.

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

She was a remarkable person and the love of my life.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.

Many things are improbable, only a few are impossible.

Our vegetable garden is coming along well, with radishes and beans up, and we are less worried about revolution that we used to be.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

I always have breakfast, say, scrambled egg whites, a vegetable smoothie, or whole-grain cereal with low-fat milk. For lunch and dinner, I eat a lot of fish and vegetables. And throughout the day, I try to stay hydrated.

Finally, cooking is good citizenship. It's the only way to get serious about putting locally raised foods into your diet, which keeps farmlands healthy and grocery money in the neighborhood.

As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

What he did to my heart was sheer, inexplicable, magic.

Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.

I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.