(1099 quotes found)
“Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.”
William Blackstone
“The first step in building a solid, dependable attitude is to be realistic, not only about your inherent capabilities, but also about how well you are playing to those capabilities on any given day.”
Byron Nelson
““Only the idea of death makes a warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won’t give him time to cling to anything so he tries, without craving, all of everything.””
Carlos Castaneda
“The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities. We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.”
Dave Littlefield
“In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions”
Catherine II
“I know who I am, and I know too that I am capable of being not only the characters I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France, and all the Nine Worthies as well.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.”
Oswald Spengler
“However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion”
Blaise Pascal
“I said they were capable of it. I didn't say they were going to do it.”
Lou Holtz
“We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.”
Dan Quayle