#capable

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek. ↗

— Sun Myung Moon

#before #beings #capable #children #cynical

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#am #argued #been #brilliant #british

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#between #create #emotion #equally #incapable

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

#capable #carrying #could #man #powerfully

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#i #incapable #lying #spy #terrible

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#defend #destruction #eventually #fact #inescapable

I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking. ↗

— Phil Simms

#capable #deep #haven #i #thinking

Germany must be a country which generates political ideas and leadership, which is capable of compromise, which is sovereign and yet knows that it needs its partners on both sides of the Atlantic. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#both #both sides #capable #compromise #country

I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant. ↗

— Oriana Fallaci

#i #kill #killing #man #tyrant