Capable Quotes - Page 24

• I have come from outside Delhi, but I give you an assurance that the people in the Government are very capable. I want to awaken and unite that power for the welfare of nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Government, People, Giving

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• Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Country, Fall, Autumn

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• Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Sleep, Normal

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I would never have thought I was capable of sitting on the bench as the number two man. And it showed me that you can really achieve everything in life, even the unthinkable, as long as you're willing to work on yourself a little bit.

  Oliver Kahn

  Men, Two, Numbers

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• When you're working with the same band you kind of know their style inside out, and even when you've been working for seven years with the same people, suddenly they'll do something you didn't even think they were capable of.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.

  Costa-Gavras

  Important, Saws, Becoming

  Source: progressive.org

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• The libertarian view is that human actors are self-owners and these self-owners are capable of appropriating unowned scarce resources by Lockean homesteading − some type of first use or embordering activity. Obviously, an actor must already own his body if he is to be a homesteader; self-ownership is not acquired by homesteading but rather is presupposed in any act or defense of homesteading.

  Stephan Kinsella

  Self, Views, Defense

  "Stephan Kinsella on the Logic of Libertarianism and Why Intellectual Property Doesn't Exist". Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. March 18, 2012.

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• Fear of pain has resulted in many women losing sight of birth as normal and natural, and of themselves as powerful and capable. Labor is an opportunity for women to learn about themselves and discover the strength and wisdom inherent in their bodies.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Powerful, Opportunity

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• Japan should not intervene in other countries' conflicts by using military power. And I don't think Japan is capable of doing such things. For starters, I don't believe our country has sufficient human resources to make that type of international contribution.

  Sadako Ogata

  Country, Military, Believe

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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• Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped to thrive in today's world and so it's important for teachers to ensure that students gain the foundation necessary to meet the baseline educational standards these tests represent.

  Wendy Kopp

  Teacher, Educational, Hands

  Source: www.economist.com

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• This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine.

  Patrick Süskind

  Smell, Creating, World

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• Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Evil

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• I never think I'm capable of any of [action movies]! I'm always terrified, but luckily on this one it was directed by my husband [Len Wiseman]. 'I can't possibly do it. I'm too scared, I can't do it.' He says: 'Go on. DO it!' So it is shocking as I'm not one of those people who finds that stuff easy.

  Colin Farrell

  Husband, Thinking, People

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• What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

  Sarah Palin

  People, Support, Nurture

  "Sarah Palin On Gun Control Debate: Politicians Shouldn’t Ask How ‘To Limit The Freedom Of The People’" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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• You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious, Heart, Names

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• The studio system is kind of an old boys system and it's difficult for them to trust women to be capable

  Jane Campion

  Boys, Kind, Difficult

  "Cannes 2012: Why have no female film directors been nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes?" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. May 19, 2012.

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• No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.

  T. S. Eliot

  Country, Independent, Men

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• The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Making Love, Vietnam

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• I continue coupling a plate of silver with one of zinc, and always in the same order... and place between each of these couples a moistened disk. I continue to form a column. If the column contains about twenty of these couples of metal, it will be capable of giving to the fingers several small shocks.

  Alessandro Volta

  Couple, Zinc, Order

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• The inspiration of a noble cause enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Dream, Inspiration, Men

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

  Luiz Bolognesi

  Art, Expression, Defense

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have friends who are capable of writing a very rough draft and then going back and embroidering - they're sort of the cathedral builders of fiction. I never really know what I'm doing, and all my pleasure's on the level of the line. It's a weird way to move forward. It's kind of like a way to caterpillar your way through these great woods. The best ones, whatever I feel like I'm writing about, some other secret thing will begin to come into focus.

  Karen Russell

  Moving, Writing, Focus

  "Karen Russell’s Fantastical World". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. February 7, 2013.

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• The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

  Trita Parsi

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• Life isn't that simple. Everybody has a dual potential to do good and bad and you're capable of doing both. But as to whether someone is beyond redemption, they're dangerous.

  Wilbert Rideau

  Simple, Redemption, Good And Bad

  "Inside Man". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2010.

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