Able Quotes - Page 79

The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan.

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.

When you think about a barbecue, most people think of slabs of ribs, but you don't need to do that in today's culinary barbecue world. Short ribs, barbecue chicken, skewered shrimp, vegetable kebabs, lobster mac and cheese with or without the lobster, and a donut bread pudding for dessert that's absolutely amazing. These are things that are safe whether you're a novice or a professional. Be creative and stay within your culinary pantheon.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

His response was remarkable for its irrelevance, if for nothing else.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me.

His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

See you little guys later.

I once used the word OBSOLETE in a headline, only to discover that 43 per cent of housewives had no idea what it meant. In another headline, I used the word INEFFABLE, only to discover that I didn't know what it meant myself.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

It is far better to be happy than to have your bodies act as graveyards for animals. Accordingly, the apostle [St.] Matthew partook of seeds, nuts and vegetables, without meat.

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

An idea or a fact is not worth more merely because it's more available to you.

The force of love, the force of reunion is unstoppable.