#capable

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. ↗

— Catherine II

#circumstances #conjectures #guided #must #politics

I like a very dry wit, not the big kind of humor like Robin Williams. I don't think I'm capable of that. ↗

— Chris Cooper

#capable #dry #humor #i #kind

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#boy #boy scout #capable #i #living

Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised. ↗

— Faye Dunaway

#emotional #expect #femininity #find #like

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#did #literally #ourselves #things #would

Sarah is very strong. She's really intelligent and she's very physically capable. I like to put that into my own life as well. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#i #intelligent #into #life #like

It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending. ↗

— Christopher Gadsden

#capable #carry #feelings #following #free

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#assumptions #capable #capacity #caught #creative

Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#arm #because #capable #even #i

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you. ↗

— Ron Livingston

#because #capable #chess #hurting #just