Capable Quotes - Page 9

• The day the world ends, no one will be there, just as no one was there when it began. This is a scandal. Such a scandal for the human race that it is indeed capable collectively, out of spite, of hastening the end of the world by all means just so it can enjoy the show.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Mean, Race, Scandal

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.229, Verso

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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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• [The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

  James Madison

  Hate, Party, Believe

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.482

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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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• I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Girl, Memories, School

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• Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like science fiction is. It's irrational by nature. And it is capable of exploring all aspects of human experience.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Two, Romance, Mind

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The idea of empowering people and that moment when someone sees what they are capable of is just incredible to me.

  Matthew Hussey

  Ideas, People, Empowering

  "Interview With Rising Star Matthew Hussey, Bestselling Author of Get The Guy and International Love Guru". Interview with Nicole Bryl, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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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 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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• I have had and still do have every confidence in Paul Nitze, a man whom I have known for decades, one of the wisest servants of the American nation but always willing and capable of taking into account the interests of their allies, whoever: the British, or the French or the Germans or others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Men, Allies, British

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• As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.

  Wesley Eisold

  Teacher, Teenager, Lying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Michelle Obama is going to be an amazing First Lady: She's intelligent, capable and motivated. She just embodies everything that an American woman should represent.

  Eva Longoria

  Intelligent, Firsts, Motivated

  "Eva Longoria Parker Shows Her Sexy Side". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. December 28, 2008.

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• Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction.

  Pope Francis

  People, Violence, Maintaining

  Pope Francis, McDonagh, Sean (2016). “On Care for Our Common Home, Laudato Si': The Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment”, p.182

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• Until we resolve to stand up & walk, we won't find people to show us directions...I am confident that 125 crore Indians are capable to walk and will keep walking always.

  Narendra Modi

  People, Innovation, India

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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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• What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

  Bill McKibben

  Different, Creatures

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• The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

  Norman Cousins

  Agency, Challenges, World

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• Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Men, Discipline

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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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• 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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• 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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• Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

  Barbara Ascher

  Self, Joy, Solitary

  Barbara Lazear Ascher (1987). “Playing after dark”, Harpercollins

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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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