Able Quotes - Page 66

It's one of my short-term goals, to be able to actually record music and release it simultaneously and not just hold on to it.

I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.

Of course we live in a world where we have to make money to eat so that's always nice to be able to sing and make money but to do something I love and to be able to eat from...it's great.

Everything we see in nature is manifested truth; only we are not able to recognize it unless truth is manifest within ourselves.

I need to be able to play the music, and so I don't like to have intimidation be part of it.

Once you are able to make your request in such a way that you will be quite certain of its fulfillment, then the fulfillment will come.

You may talk about religion and speak about the Gospel, and say we have got the truth and the plan of salvation, and we have got the authority of the Priesthood; but if we are not honest, it does not amount to anything; for neither God nor honorable men love dishonesty. We must, therefore, be an honest people.

Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.

Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

There is no one anywhere as available to everyone everywhere as is God.

My eyes are green, Cause I eat a lot of vegetables, It don't have nothing to do with your new friend

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

It is at night that faith in light is admirable.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can’t have.

We may not be able to do any great thing; but if each of us will do something, however small it may be, a good deal will be accomplised for God.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment

Success is predictable.