Able Quotes - Page 98

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

We're all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.

On January 30, 1988, my twenty-seventh birthday, I became a strict vegetarian. I developed a passion for health and nutrition. My diet consists of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and legumes only, and has for the past 15 years now.

Yes I would have been able to play for Bill Parcells.

I think all those rules are boring. About what people can and can't wear. Surely everyone should be able to wear whatever they like?

Coming into existence is always bad for those who come into existence. In other words, although we may not be able to say of the never-existent that never existing is good for them, we can say of the existent that existence is bad for them.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Don't let it worry you, not being able to speak,'Dustfinger had often told her. 'People tend not to listen anyway, right?

When you're a kid, nine times out of 10, everthing is pure depending on how you grow up. Everything is new as a kid, so it's all amazing and wonderful. But as we get older, things start to lose their luster or possibly their relevance. Things don't mean as much as they did then. I know the feeling.

Be loyal to yourself, charitable to neighbours, nothing more.

My chair just broke by the way. It's a billion dollar corporation and I can't get a decent chair and somebody to come out here and fix this announce table.

Being comfortable is over-rated.

I don't listen to music, and I don't particularly watch television, so if anyone wants to come over and just hang out with me sitting at the table in silence, you know, eating a dish of rice... I don't get too many takers.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

People who know me know I'm strong, but I'm vulnerable.

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

Feminism has become a catch-all vegetable drawer where bunches of clingy sob sisters can store their moldy neuroses.