The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.
Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.
I don't know how it is, but the Germans are amazed at me and I am amazed at them for finding anything to be amazed about.
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
You would be amazed how much action anyone is capable of.
English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.
I'm very interested in the drama of the leading man being someone who is incapable, becoming capable.
Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal set of traits that are endlessly reiterated and incapable of expansion or alteration, a fixed loop.
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS and the OBSCENE bird of night chatters endlessly.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
There is lot of competition happening in the South and I'm incapable of being in the race, but I will be more than happy to do a good role and prove that I am capable of doing it.