Famous Quotes & Sayings

Voltaire

I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

William Joyce

I know that I have been denounced as a traitor and I resent the accusation, as I conceive myself to have been guilty of no underhand or deceitful act against Britain, although I am also able to understand the resentment that my broadcasts have, in many quarters, aroused.

Walter Gilbert

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Virat Kohli

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

Samuel Beckett

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Wayne LaPierre

Everybody, every American starts to have - needs to start having a security plan. We need to be able to protect ourselves.

Tracee Ellis Ross

There is a way to be a woman, ask for what we deserve and be able to negotiate.

Upton Sinclair

If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

Sarah Dessen

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

Robert Smith Surtees

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

Robert Sheckley

Once you find you can't walk as far and as fast as you were able, life becomes more complicated.

Robert Preston

I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.

Robert Plant

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.

William Hazlitt

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Wendell Berry

You have to be able to imagine lives that are not yours.

William Petersen

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Ricardo Lagos

Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross.

Riccardo Muti

You have to be able to enthral and persuade at the same time.

Rob Bell

Freedom is not having everything we crave, it's being able to go without the things we crave and being OK with it.

Tamara Ecclestone

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

Sylvia Plath

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't.

Rollo May

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

Tom Ford

You know that only thing that has made the whole thing worthwhile has been those few times that I was able to truly connect with another person.

Tom Baker

Actors are able to trick themselves into treating anything as if it's fantastic. It's a kind of madness really.

Todd Gitlin

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

Steve Jobs

We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.

Sri Chinmoy

When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely.