Able Quotes - Page 33

Before you can do something that you've never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.

I would not want to live with a tube in my neck and not be able to move a finger. I wouldn't - that to me is not life.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

If I ever stop working, I might have a problem. But I never seem to be able to stop working.

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.

The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives.

Winning or losing, it's always something special and something you'll remember, even more so when the match was as dramatic as it was today. It's even more memorable when I see my kids there with my wife and everything. That's what touched me the most, to be quite honest. The disappointment of the match itself went pretty quickly.

All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.

... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain things occur, if certain lines meet, an angle is born. You cannot fail. It's not going to fail; it is eternal. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total. Thus, I'm able to avoid or manipulate or process pain.

Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.

I've made forty-three pictures. Naturally I'm adorable in all of them.

There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

A downtrodden class... will never be able to make an effective protest until it achieves solidarity.

And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.

We will never be able to solve the problems of tomorrow with the thinking of today

The most knowledgeable person in one domain may be the most ignorant in another.