#able

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years. ↗

— Major Taylor

#been #careers #clean #clean living #exertion

To be able to influence someone or to be able to have a group of guys come together to have a successful team and to be together all the time every day for, you know, a year and longer together, you have to have a - find a common ground. And that common ground for us is football. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#come #common #common ground #day #every

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around. ↗

— Robert Teeter

#comparable #future #himself #immediate #immediate future

Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ↗

— Ellen Terry

#insuperable #obstacle #progress

Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beverage #book #comfortable #couch #distractions

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#force #inseparable #like #man #matter

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#best #better #doubt #foolishly #love

Every conceivable cruel method of blackmail was used against me to obtain by force and at all costs confessions and statements both about comrades who had been arrested, and about political activities. ↗

— Ernst Thalmann

#activities #against #arrested #been #both

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#biggest #biggest challenge #challenge #family #instruments

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great. ↗

— Jeff Goldblum

#always #great #i #identity #informed