- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a dream that someday, nations will be able to settle their difficulties without war, just as individuals now settle their personal feuds without resorting to arguments of physical strength or sharp steel. For, then, humanity will have created international jurisdiction and a power to enforce its laws.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Love, as life, will fortunately remain an eternal mystery which no science will be able to penetrate and which reason cannot rule. Our only hope for the future is that man, endowed with a more delicate sense, will listen to the secrets of his own life.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'
- Choice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no desire to be a star. I wanted to be a character actress and be able to do all kinds of parts and work on a lot of things. That was my unconscious choice. I wanted to be an undercover actress.
- Anger
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have been able to fight against that depression to produce such an incredible body of work by the age of thirty.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are perfectly glad to accept the idea that dogs love us, so they must be able to love each other.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020