Capable Quotes - Page 33

• If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.

  Ronald Reagan

  Responsibility, Ifs, Governing

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

  Francis Fukuyama

  Mean, Self, Feelings

  Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if I am capable of being somebody’s sun, somebody’s everything. Am I centered enough now to be the center of somebody else’s life?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sun, Wonder, Enough

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.325, A&C Black

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• Big deal. So you fell in love with someone. Don’t you see what happened? This guy touched a place in your heart deeper than you thought you were capable of reaching, I mean you got zapped, kiddo. But that love you felt, that’s just the beginning. You just got a taste of love. That’s just limited little rinky-dink mortal love. Wait till you see how much more deeply you can love than that. Heck, Groceries—you have the capacity to someday love the whole world. It’s your destiny. Don’t laugh.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love You, Heart, Mean

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.143, A&C Black

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• The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.

  Raymond Chandler

  Powerful, Adventure, Self

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.117, Univ of California Press

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• The aeroplane is the nearest thing to animate life that man has created. In the air a machine ceases indeed to be a mere piece of mechanism; it becomes animate and is capable not only of primary guidance and control, but actually of expressing a pilot's temperament.

  Ross Macpherson Smith

  Men, Air, Pilots

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• In another life, I would be your girl. Capable of making promises. We would rule the world.

  Katy Perry

  Girl, Promise, Would Be

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• It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Break Through, Today, Facts

  "The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In" by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine, p. 30, March 30, 1970.

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• and yet, you never knew wwhat you were capable of until you arrived at that given moment. Life was just a whole string of spots where you continued to surprise yourself.

  Jodi Picoult

  Surprise, Moments, Strings

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• There comes a point when you need to get over the fear and get on with your life, and a lot of people don’t seem to be capable of that anymore. From blood tests to gated communities, we have embraced the cult of fear, and now we don’t seem to know how to put it back where it belongs.

  Mira Grant

  Blood, People, Community

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• Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with somebody else?

  Jodi Picoult

  Falling In Love, Fall, Love Someone

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary master plan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals.

  Vaclav Havel

  Lying, People, Support

  Vaclav Havel, John Keane (2016). “The Power of the Powerless: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe: Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe”, p.43, Routledge

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• Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.

  Deb Caletti

  Heart, Fighting, Hands

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• I want to be someone capable of seeing the unseen faces, of seeing those who do not seek fame or glory, who silently fulfil the role life has given them. I want to be able to do this because the most important things, those that shape our existence, are precisely the ones that never show their faces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Important, Unseen, Roles

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• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

  David Gemmell

  Coward, Heroism, Definitions

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  Sarah Dessen

  Knows, Either Or

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.149, Penguin

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• They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Two, Only Child

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• Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Politics, Stakes

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.116, Beacon Press

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• I do see the good in people, but I also see the bad --- I see it in myself. I know what I'm capable of. Good and bad. It's very imnportant that we make that clear. Just because I often find a way around the darkness doesn't mean tjat I don't know it's there. (Bono)

  Bono

  Mean, People, Darkness

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• Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

  Stephen King

  Past, People, Knows

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Winning, Mountain

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “Animal Dreams: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

  George MacDonald

  Selfishness, Redemption, Littles

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.7826, Delphi Classics

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• Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now.

  Nicole Krauss

  Gone, Rooms, Youth

  Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.131, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Seems

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.29, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Only children believe they're capable of everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Believe, Only Child

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