#capacity

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to lose. They didn't care if she had the policy or political or emotional capacity to serve as vice president, let alone president. They were willing to drive the country off a cliff, if that's what it took to win. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#bomb #capacity #care #certain #cliff

The worst manifestations of exhaustion were successfully cured by a long period of rest but it was immediately apparent to me that I had lost once and for all my former capacity for carrying out experimental work until physically tired. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#capacity #carrying #cured #exhaustion #experimental

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#capacity #countries #gnp #important #industrialized

Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

#aviation #capacity #given #impossible #proof

America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese. ↗

— David Riesman

#big #capacity #chinese #concealment #humorous

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american president #any #capacity #growth #had

I have the capacity of being more wicked than any example that man could set me. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#being #capacity #could #example #i

We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment. ↗

— John McDonald

#been #capacity #create #desirable #endowed

If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#best #capacity #capitalism #destructive #exploitation