#ability

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#cause #deter #fail #just #may

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

In a case like Iraq the UN has again shown what important role it plays as the guarantor for protecting international peace and stability in the global political structure. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#case #global #guarantor #important #important role

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#consider #contrive #execute #furnishes #gives

God does not begin by asking our ability, only our availability, and if we prove our dependability, He will increase our capability. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#asking #availability #begin #capability #does

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#been #caught #fights #food #inability

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. ↗

— Frank Whittle

#fight #good #modern #modern war #nation

Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#anything #key #lies #our #transforming

I have produced no children of my own and my husband is dead," she replied, an acid tone in her voice. "Thus I am more to be pitied than revered. I am expected to give up the shop to my nephew, who will then be able to afford to bring a very good wife from Pakistan. In exchange, I will be given houseroom and no doubt, the honor of taking care of several small children of other family members." The Major was silent. He was at once appalled and also reluctant to hear any more. This was why people usually talked about the weather. ↗

— Helen Simonson

#family #family-relationships #inevitability #pessimism #relationships

When I was little, she thought, I wanted nothing except to stop travelling. I wanted time for each new thing, each new feeling, to be held properly in suspension until it could be joined by the next. Given the chance I could easily hold all those beautiful things together. I could be like a box in which they would be held new forever. Instead, everything aged and changed. People too. ↗

— M. John Harrison

#stasis #age