#capacity

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

#cannot #capacity #confined #essential #gift

The labour of the farmers, no doubt is of greater value than the financial capacity of the government and non-government institutions which can only play a supportive role. ↗

— Girma Woldegiorgis

#doubt #farmers #financial #government #greater

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

If we talk about the environment, for example, we have to talk about environmental racism - about the fact that kids in South Central Los Angeles have a third of the lung capacity of kids in Santa Monica. ↗

— Danny Glover

#angeles #capacity #central #environment #environmental

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity. ↗

— William Godwin

#cannot #capacity #our #own #perform

If you do a practice and train your attention to hover in the present, then you will build the internal capacity to do that as needed - at will and voluntarily. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#build #capacity #hover #internal #needed

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#also #always #any #approach #big

We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Bob Graham

#compelling #destruction #developing #evidence #had

Genes that underlie the capacity to receive, use and transmit information are the evolving properties. ↗

— Peter R. Grant

#evolving #genes #information #properties #receive

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it. ↗

— Dave Grohl

#away #capacity #decide #go #go away