#cap

The U.N. is capable of endless process and mindless psychobabble, but as far as getting the job done on the ground, I just don't see them doing it. ↗

— Peter King

#capable #doing #done #endless #far

Just when we most need to be clearheaded, in order to face the hard facts before us, there is all too frequently a very real inclination to give way to dangerous tendencies merely as an escape from realities. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#dangerous #escape #face #facts #frequently

Temperance is essential, if the services of men and women are to be employed to the best and most useful effect according, to the physical capacity and ability of each. Nothing less will assure a total effort. ↗

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

#according #assure #best #capacity #each

Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#capacity #else #empathy #every #lost

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan. ↗

— William Kirby

#big brother #brother #capacity #generous #internally

I would say raising capital is one of the weakest things for most entrepreneurs. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#entrepreneurs #i #most #raising #say

Commercials capture your attention, that's all. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#capture #commercials #your

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped. ↗

— Evel Knievel

#center #days #escaped #i #stayed

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product. ↗

— Keira Knightley

#am #costume #doing #end #end product

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment. ↗

— David Knopfler

#college #escape #go #gravity #i