Able Quotes - Page 70

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

To sense the invisible and to be able to create it, that is art.

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well.

Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

Often, the most enjoyable part of an activity is the anticipation.

Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about cars.

Before tomorrow, make a list of your traits. Make YOUR list - who you are and why. Then ask yourself this question: where did it come from? Are you the way you are because it is what you want... or what they want? Are you a product of your imagination or someone else's? Think about it.

Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.

I don't see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable