#capable

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#capable #doing #done #feel #judge

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know? ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#auden-west #bikes #boys #capable-of-more #debutante

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#belief #capable #every #evil #men

I know that human beings are capable of anything. ↗

— Ben Okri

#beings #capable #human #human beings #i

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

#being #cannot #change #changed #converted

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#art #capable #look #many #people

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of. ↗

— Paula Radcliffe

#get #good #good idea #i #i can

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#brains #capable #comes #farthest #hearts

The government is fully capable of delivering services. Even complex services. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#complex #delivering #even #fully #government

I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#capable #catastrophe #chance #clearly #courageously