Famous quotes containing the word capable:
“I believe that one of the most dignified ways we are capable of, to assert and then reassert our dignity in the face of poverty and war’s fears and pains, is to nourish ourselves with all possible skill, delicacy, and ever-increasing enjoyment.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)
“Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.”
—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870–1924)
“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)