Able Quotes - Page 42

We have no interest in seeing an unstable Yemen or seeing a Yemen that is devastated.

I keep wondering if there is an afterlife, and if there is will they be able to break a twenty?

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.

Well, life was tough, but at least I was able to live it out and I was able to face death and not be afraid.

Compassion is the foundation of everything positive, everything good. If you carry the power of compassion to the marketplace and the dinner table, you can make your life really count.

In logic, there are no morals.

The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans.

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

If you look around the table and you can't tell who the sucker is, it's you.

In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

One cannot be able in life by fearing to live.

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Dedicate yourself to a core set of values. Without them, you will never be able to find personal fulfillment, and you will never be able to lead effectively.

Being able to tell one from start to finish, and making that puzzle come together at the end. That's the art for me.

In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.

For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For I have never waited to do as I wished. This has frequently brought me to disaster and calamity, but at least I have had the the satisfaction of getting my own way.