#capable

Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#comedy #inescapable #laugh #often #realization

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#difficult #doing #filmmaker #french #honoring

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#capable #i #just #looking #often

Lebanon is caught in a cycle of threats. And it is our duty to be strong and capable of defending our country. But we will not clarify or explain what we do or do not possess. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

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However, they did not treat the reasons that led to this condition. I believe that the conditions in the Palestinian territories are alway capable of explosion because the same circumstances are there. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#believe #capable #circumstances #condition #conditions

If we're gonna win, we have to play up to and beyond our potential. We're capable of doing that. ↗

— Don Nelson

#capable #doing #gonna #our #play

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through. ↗

— Ted Olson

#barbara #calls #capable #collect #doing

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#being #capable #facts #knowledge #law

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#being #capable #chances #could #fulfilled

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable. ↗

— Dennis Prager

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