Quotes with capable

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  • Aphra Behn Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Kofi Annan Once you are really challenged, you find something in yourself. Man doesn't know what he is capable of until he is asked.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Bertie Carvel People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Richard Dawkins Religion is capable of driving people to such dangerous folly that faith seems to me to qualify as a kind of mental illness.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Carl Sagan She too had found the experience transforming. How could she not? A demon had been exorcised. Several. And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 407)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Alexander Haig Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • John Wooden Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Dewey Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Joseph Joubert Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Abdallah II Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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