Able Quotes - Page 25

Indeed many things which we shall not be able to discover either by the experiment of works or by the investigations of reason we shall deserve to be taught by importunate prayer, by the revelation of divine inspiration.

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.

I live in a swimsuit so I'm really comfortable with my body.

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

Leaders should be able to Stand Alone, Take the Heat, Bear the Pain, Tell the Truth, and Do What's Right

Writing well has everything to do with being able to read one's own work with an eye toward the unmet possibilities that are there.

I always take working out seriously, but before a shoot I do extra sit ups and squats. I also eat more vegetables and drink a ton of water, because it really helps my skin glow.

Don't open your diamonds in a vegetable market. Tie them in bundle and keep them in your heart, and go your own way.

My favorite vegetable is the marshmallow.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.

Fairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I always think if you have to cook once, it should feed you twice. If you're going to make a big chicken and vegetable soup for lunch on Monday, you stick it in the refrigerator and it's also for Wednesday's dinner.

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

Being willing makes you able.

The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

The writer must be able to revel and roll in the abundance of words; he must know not only the direct but also the secret power of a word. There are overtones and undertones to a word, and lateral echoes, too.

Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it.