Famous quotes containing the word capable:
“... in 1950 a very large slice of the white South stood at the crossroads in its attitude toward its colored citizens and [was] psychologically capable of turning either way.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 1, ch. 8 (1962)
“I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am because I’m capable of being just as sorry as you are, so we’re both sorry, all right? All right.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)