Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Cyril Connolly

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

Dave Brubeck

I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Curt Weldon

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

Confucius

If proper in their own conduct, what difficulty would they have in governing? But if not able to be proper in their own conduct, how can they demand such conduct from others?

Confucius

To know your faults and be able to change is the greatest virtue.

Daniel Tammet

Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorbing those experiences and somehow making intuitive responses in future situations that resemble them in some way.

Dane Cook

I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.

Dalton McGuinty

There will come a time when the Ministry of Health is the only Ministry we can afford to have and we still won't be able to afford the Ministry of Health

Cyndi Lauper

With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.

David Gest

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

David Geffen

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

David Geffen

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

Ram Dass

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear...

Ernest Bevin

My policy is to be able to take a ticket at Victoria station and go anywhere I damn well please!

Cassandra Clare

There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.

Iris Murdoch

until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable.

J. K. Rowling

If all goes well, you will be able to save more than one innocent life tonight.

Grace Napolitano

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Grace Paley

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

Marya Mannes

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

Mary J. Blige

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Paul Auster

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

Paul Auster

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Julia Sawalha

I love a bit of glamour - who doesn't? - but I probably wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Leonardo da Vinci

It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well.

Naomi Watts

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

Pierre Omidyar

You're able to accomplish anything you set out to accomplish.

Nelson A. Miles

The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live as Indians, which we have not, and do not attempt to force upon them the customs which are distasteful to them.

Rachel Joyce

you could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.

Nhat Hanh

To condemn someone to death is to surrender; it proves that you failed. You are not able to change him, to change her; you have to kill him or her. You surrender. ... You only demonstrate your lack of capacity, your helplessness. This is failure.

Noam Chomsky

I know some really outstanding Turkish journalists, and have been pleased and honored to be able to join with them a few times in their courageous protests against state terror and repression.