"I would frankly be shocked if Donald Trump even knows how to use chopsticks or is even able to manipulate them with those tiny little fingers."
Read quote
5 likes
Able quotes
Able
3.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Able
Browse quotes that often appear alongside able — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Able quotes (page 27 of 196)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and not being able, as a woman filmmaker and as a filmmaker of color, to put together the resources to make another thing."
Read quote
5 likes
"We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures."
Read quote
5 likes
"Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us."
Read quote
5 likes
"The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain."
Read quote
5 likes
"The struggle for existence is a struggle 'for' something; it is purposeful and only in so being is it meaningful and able to bring meaning into life."
Read quote
5 likes
"The idea that Parliament somehow wasn't going to be able to discuss, debate, question issues around (Brexit) was frankly completely wrong."
Read quote
5 likes
"Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt."
Read quote
5 likes
"I was able to get a few words out that Scott Peterson was the Scott Peterson that had a missing, pregnant wife and ... I just shook. They said I was there probably like an hour and it just seemed like a moment ... I couldn't stop shaking. So I was, I guess, in shock."
Read quote
5 likes
"It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty."
Read quote
5 likes
"Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able."
Read quote
5 likes
"Opportunities are all around you, you just need to be able to see them."
Read quote
5 likes
"Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded."
Read quote
5 likes
"I like being able to put out my own content instead of just going from audition to audition and just waiting and hoping."
Read quote
5 likes
"It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly."
Read quote
5 likes
"To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said - 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film."
Read quote
5 likes
"No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa."
Read quote
5 likes
"True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy."
Read quote
5 likes
"The fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference."
Read quote
5 likes
"I think mainly it's an optics thing: to be able to visualize a woman in a position of power. It's going to be wonderful for all of us in every field."
Read quote
5 likes