Famous quotes containing the word capable:
“Although the pattern prevailed,
The breaks were everywhere. That she could think
Of no thread capable of the necessary
Sew-work.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
“If the soul doth think in a sleeping man without being conscious of it, I ask, whether during such thinking it has any pleasure or pain, or be capable of happiness or misery? I am sure the man is not, no more than the bed or earth he lies on. For to be happy or miserable without being conscious of it, seems to me utterly inconsistent and impossible.
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—John Locke (1632–1704)
“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)