Capable Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Miracle, Forever

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• The new life created by the final integration is self-aware yet without ego, capable of inhabiting a body yet not attached to it, and guided by wisdom rather than emotion. Whole and virtuous, it can never die.

  Laozi

  Life, Self, Ego

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.

  Zalman Schachter-Shalomi

  People, Way, Path

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• Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

  Yiyun Li

  Innocent Person, Heartless, Crime

  Yiyun Li (2014). “Kinder Than Solitude: A Novel”, p.308, Random House

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• If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is to the physical body. It nourishes and enlivens the higher man and urges him to produce the best he is capable of. It directs his freewill along the proper course and disciplines the animal in him into progressive channels. It furnishes an excellent background for man to display his scale of values and develop his personality.

  J. C. Kumarappa

  Men, Animal, Discipline

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• What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles retreat when they're not used, but they will always come back if you give them good reason. No matter how old you get, your muscles never lose hope. Few cells of the body are as capable as muscle cells are of change and reformation, of achievement and transcendence.

  Natalie Angier

  Beautiful, Cells, Giving

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.

  Klaus Kinski

  Letting Go, Keys, Order

  "Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski". Book by Klaus Kinski, p. 72-73, 1996.

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• Where's my white collarless shirt from Fred Segal? It's my most capable-looking outfit!

  Cher

  Clueless, White, Shirts

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• It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter

  William S. Burroughs

  Fall, Independent, Quality

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.

  Billie Jean King

  Art, Moving, Player

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Aug 09, 2010

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• Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Design, Vengeance, Vicious

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.146, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

  Richard Dawkins

  Simple, Needs, Individual

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You can choose who you want to be the hero [in Hard Candy], but youll be second-guessing yourself -- theres just no right answer. Our society is obsessed with finding good and finding evil, but I think were all capable of anything.

  Ellen Page

  Hero, Thinking, Evil

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• You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

  Nick Nolte

  Running, Mean, Dark

  "Nick Nolte And James Coburn" by Andrew Boorstyn and Thelma Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I had no intention of being an actor. I was quite good at it. I was pretty capable at other things but never any good at anything.

  Sean Bean

  Actors, Intention

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• No citizen has any right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training; it is part of his profession as a citizen to keep himself in good condition... [It is] a disgrace for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and the strength of which his body is capable.

  Socrates

  Men, Healthy, Training

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• The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.

  Alan Alda

  Country, Moving, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.

  William Bushnell Stout

  Aviation, Airline, Vehicle

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• Frank is capable of any kind of behavior to win.

  Don Burr

  Winning, Aviation, Kind

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• You've got to understand that. We all look out for Morrissey. It's a very brotherly feeling. When we first rehearsed, I'd have done anything for him. And as a person Morrissey is really capable of a truly loving relationship. Every day he's so open, so romantic and sensitive to other people's emotions.

  Johnny Marr

  People, Feelings, Looks

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