Able Quotes - Page 55

I am available to more good than I have ever experienced, imagined, or realized before in my life.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

I do my very utmost to live and act in such a manner that the Führer should remain satisfied with me... but whether I shall always be able to cope with the tasks entrusted to me in the future as well, is an open question.

Unbelievable as it may seem, one-third of all vegetables consumed in the United States come from just three sources: french fries, potato chips, and iceberg lettuce.

One of the things I like best about men is they're a little vulnerable.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Whenever I'm really stuck, when I really need to go 'in there,' I sing the Chalisa and that connects me to Maharajji, to Hanuman, to that powerful presence that's deeper than any of that stuff. And, by touching that, I'm able to overcome whatever I'm stuck in...at least for 10 minutes.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

The family dinner table is the cornerstone of civilization and those who 'graze' from refrigerators or in front of the television sets are doomed to remain in a state of savagery.

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

We are more powerful, more knowledgeable, better prepared than we think we ever are.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

By an epiphany he meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of speech or of gesture or memorable phrase of the mind itself. He believed it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extreme care (saving them for later use, that is), seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent of moments.

One can lynch a person without a rope or tree.

When I go to a restaurant I always ask the manager, "Give me a table near a waiter."

But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself.

When they're looking at my work, they're looking at a painting and they're able to accept it better because it is also a quilt.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

All friendship is desirable in itself, though it starts from the need of help

I've found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

What we aspire to be is more than what we are yet less than what we are capable of.

I eat nothing that's processed or refined - no high-fructose corn syrup, no sugar, no trans-fats. I eat a lot of fish and monounsaturated fats from olives, olive oil and nuts. A lot of organic, fresh fruits and vegetables. No bread. No gluten. No wheat. No rice.

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.