Top 1200 Capable Quotes & Sayings

The great drama at the core of American race relations is always the same: Can black Americans ever be truly equal - are they capable of achieving it and are others capable of accepting it?

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring.

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique.

When we consider that each of us has only one life to live, isn’t it rather tragic to find men and women, with brains capable of comprehending the stars and the planets, talking about the weather; men and women, with hands capable of creating works of art, using those hands only for routine tasks; men and women, capable of independent thought, using their minds as a bowling-alley for popular ideas; men and women, capable of greatness, wallowing in mediocrity; men and women, capable of self-expression, slowly dying a mental death while they babble the confused monotone of the mob?

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.

The United States isn't going to do anything that it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, we'll be capable of doing it.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

That you honestly believe I am capable of hurting innocent people for no reason.” “You’re not?” I asked, hope softening my voice. “Oh, no, I’m more than capable. I just didn’t realize you knew that.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

I'm capable of making $44 million. I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

What the SEAL teams do, what our training does, is it chips away the outer that layer and shows you what you're capable of and not capable of.

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

When a child is born, the entire Universe has to shift and make room. Another entity capable of free will, and therefore capable of becoming God, has been born.

Human beings are capable of virtually limitless degradation; they are also capable of virtually limitless improvement and achievement. Success depends on goals and on diligence in pursuing them.

I've learned that anyone capable of adoring you is equally capable of abhorring you.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

The married man and the mother of a Christian family, if they are faithful to their obligations, will fulfill a mission that is as great as it is consoling: that of bringing into the world and forming young souls capable of happiness and love, souls capable of sanctification and transformation in Christ.

You've got to demonstrate you're capable of developing policies but, more importantly, you're capable of implementing them.

I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.

Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.

There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you want to know? - you are capable of living in poverty; you are capable of standing almost any kind of maltreatment, abuse, etc. But you do not wish to know about it, isn't that so? You would be furious with him who told you so, and only call that person your friend who bolsters you in saying: 'No, this I cannot bear, this is beyond my strength, etc.

Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?

The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Whatever it is, we want to be able to win at any time. The great teams and the great drivers are capable of doing that, and I think we are capable doing that.

Being capable of anything is a bullshit concept, unless it means you also admit that you're capable of cheating, lying and killing.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

I think I am capable of doing what any other elite receiver is capable of doing.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

It is in our incompleteness, of which we are aware, that education as a permanent process is grounded. Women and men are capable of being educated only to the extent that they are capable of recognizing themselves as unfinished.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

It's funny how you have to keep changing, or showing that you are capable of doing something different from people's expectations. People really only do remember you from the last thing you've done, or desperately want to put you into a position that they think you're capable of.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

We need to encourage black women to know that they are authors of their own destiny, that they have important stories to tell, and that they are capable, so magically capable, of writing them and creating important pieces of work that will live forever in history.

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.

If I am the best, I am capable of saying it, but if I find the others better, I am also capable of shutting up. And staying on the bench. Full stop.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced. Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

There's more than a few people that I could think of capable of meeting Brock Lesnar in the Bloodsport ring. We don't lack for for capable and wanting fighters.

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

Because we didn't cooperate with China, we gave them motivation to develop their own capability. You know, they developed a very capable rocket system, very capable spacecraft. And if we don't cooperate with them in the future, they're going to develop more capable systems. If we're working together on a highly visible project, there is going to be much less, or there is going to be motivation for each country to not get into a conflict or any kind of tension in the military sense.

Not everybody out here trains with me; not everybody knows what I'm capable of. My coaches know what I'm capable of, my training partners know what I'm capable of, and I know what I'm capable of.

When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves