Able Quotes - Page 38

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

I am not ashamed to reply to you in my mother tongue, however imperfectly, and am glad to be able to show that my fatherland means more to me than anything else

Scoundrels are always sociable.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

I look at Obama, a young man, a good-looking person. That is my first impression, I feel sorry for him. He looks 100 percent like Lukashenko, when I came to power after the breakup of the Soviet Union

Look outside the window. Do you see the fence outside the palace? Do you see any guards? This is a country where everyone is safe.

It's good to have fresh ingredients, but let's not completely ignore some frozen ingredients. Vegetables are absolutely brilliant because as soon as they come out of the ground they are prepared and frozen instantly.

Any society that takes away from those most capable and gives to the least will perish.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

It's okay to put your heart on your sleeve. Okay to have that softer side - the softer side in the sense of being able to listen, to deal with fear, to not always be so dominant.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

As a manager you're paid to be uncomfortable. If you're comfortable, it's a sure sign you're doing things wrong.

I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

It is characteristic of fundamental discoveries, of great achievements of the intellect, that they retain an undiminished power upon the imagination of the thinker. The memorable experiment of Faraday with a disc rotating between two poles of a magnet, which has borne such magnificent fruit, has long passed into every-day experience; yet there are certain features about this embryo of the present dynamos and motors which even today appear to us striking, and are worthy of the most careful study.

Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

forgive yourself for what you aren't able to do, the ones who aren't able to acknowledge their ownselves are bound to fail

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.