Able Quotes - Page 50

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

If I have to be a soldier I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable

Cooperative living can develop only as individual persons become able to see their own weaknesses and strengths as well as the weaknesses and strengthen of others.

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good.

But if you want to find peace, you must first be able to hope it is possible.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

If you convey God's words to someone only with the intention to utilize him in some way, you will never be able to establish the standard of the "Way." Give what you have to others with your sincere heart.

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

The most memorable performance was my appearance in concert in Carnegie Hall. The first standup to do so.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying “eat all your vegetables”. Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue, that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.

To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair inevitable.

Beauty is only the start of bearable terror.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

It is vital that we provide North Dakota's children with nutritionally sound diets. That means ensuring that they are getting plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, and are developing good eating habits for their future.

As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone .

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

Of what use, educationally speaking, is it to be able to see the end in the beginning?

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

Why are we putting people who are already in a vulnerable position through this dreadful, appalling stress?

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.