#capable

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate. ↗

— John Keats

#capable #disagreeable #evaporate #every #excellency

I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of. ↗

— Harrison Ford

#capable #i #low #me #might

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#concepts #histories #homesickness #incapable #individuals

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis. ↗

— Paul Krugman

#borrow #capable #crisis #currency #debt

At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did. ↗

— Charlize Theron

#belief #capable #career #come #complicated

In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#best #capable #changing #course #every

In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Dominique de Villepin

#achieve #capable #east #europe #middle

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#best #better #contemplate #darkness #despair

Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances. ↗

— George C. Williams

#capable #circumstances #darwin #empirical #every

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#because #become #brilliant #doing #done