Quotes of: Capacity Keyword

And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few years. She's this amazing capacity of young and vibrant and brilliant, but also a bright, intelligent old soul.

Eddie Redmayne

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Ralph W. Sockman

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Adam Bede

[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Atheism: The Case Against God

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

How to Attract the Wombat

Is not our capacity to choose, to chase, to dream of becoming other than we are, more powerful then the patterns of the stars?

Jepp, Who Defied the Stars

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Mister Monday

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

Mother Night

I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods. Perfect, it will keep him occupied. In what capacity? Bait.

Magic Slays

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

Nice Guys Finish Last

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

The News: A User's Manual

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.

Love in the Time of Cholera

When you say "I" and "my" too much, you lose the capacity to understand the "we" and "our".

Life, the Truth, and Being Free

This was their third bar since Piccadilly and they were both agreed that the two of them were very drunk but had the capacity to get a good deal drunker yet.

Life After Life

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Speedboat

I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.

Strangers on a Train

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Warranted Christian Belief

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

A Wreath of Roses

Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question that their capacity to work out complex things is extremely good.

Robert Winston

The true Epicurean cultivates the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around him chase pleasure in more things.

Reclaiming Epicurus