Able Quotes - Page 60

In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Whatever I decide will not work. It's what people want that will work. So no one decided whether you become a vegetarian or anything else. What determines that is the availability of food. If we run out of vegetation due to floods or natural disasters, people will consume meat and if we run out of meat they will consume vegetables. I have no control over that. That would be up to people.

If you remain conventional and don't change, you'll get along. You'll get along in the limited forms of insanity that exist out there. You'll never be able to keep a marriage together, you'll never be able to keep anything together, because the whole goddamn thing isn't together.

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about being a girl, it's about being a funny comic.

Do your best every time because by doing a thing well you build something valuable into yourself

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Consistency is what counts; you have to be able to do things over and over again.

Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.

I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable

I am desperate and vulnerable. ... I am always terrified.... Beauty can sometimes be so very troublesome.

You cannot have a happy ending to a miserable journey.

If love means never having to say you're sorry, then marriage means always having to say everything twice.

As with anything creative, change is inevitable.

I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.

Forgiveness is something that we are often asked to grant and very few of us ever have the roadmap of how to get from the pain that we have experienced to being able to forgive someone.

Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

A gluten-free diet still allows you access to almost every fruit and vegetable, a variety of grains and legumes, your pick of dairy products, fresh meats and fish and a whole slew of special gluten-free delights to satisfy your pretzel-bagel-muffin-doughnut craving.

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile.

I don't know whether we will find ourselves in the cross hairs, pulled by the short hairs, or just trying to find the next inane hairstyle. But change is coming; it is inevitable. It is as steady and reliable as a ticking clock.

The mystics always say that the experience they're talking about is ineffable, that you can't say it. Rumi was asked one time why he talked so much about silence. He said, "The radiant one inside me has never said a word."

Life is too short to be able to love as one should.