Capable Quotes

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services.
Donna Shalala

Government, Complex, Delivering

I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
Donna Shalala

Different, Young, Older

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham

Time, Good, End

Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem

Trust, Greatness

What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.
Lawrence Eagleburger

Understand, Why, Effort

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.
William Blackstone

Men, Courage, Society

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.
Katherine Mansfield

Understand, Others, Becoming

People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they be said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.
David Bohm

Change, Said, Rather

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
John Abizaid

Good, Leaders, Confident

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell

Knowledge, Mind, Around

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Mary Astell

Women, Best, Mean

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
Oriana Fallaci

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
Henry Fielding

Happiness, Person, Others

I am capable of being idle.
Alexander McCall Smith

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
Edith Stein

God, Heart, Prayer

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.
George Henry Lewes

Great, Power, Speech

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.
Kevin Rudd

Government, Strong, Fair

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.
Werner Herzog

Dreams, Good, Great

I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Ahmed Ben Bella

Government, Death, Fight

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
Jonathan Carroll

Love, Someone, Two

The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
Herbert Croly

Political, Social, Order

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.
Michelle Bachelet

Women, Cannot, Learn

I have not proved that the universe is, in fact, a digital computer and that it's capable of performing universal computation, but it's plausible that it is.
Seth Lloyd

Universe, Fact, Universal

But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
Brent Scowcroft

Around, United, Agree

The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting.
Martin Van Creveld

Enemy, Living, Acting

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.
Wendell Berry

Justice, Mean, Said

There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
William Temple

Live, Cannot, Others

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.
Shakira

Love, Art, Person

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
Suzanne Farrell

Important, Fact, Often

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