ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.
I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.
Kids don't lack capacity, only teachers.
I know I have the mental capacity of a thousand bloggers, but because of that, my obligation to serve God is also that of a thousand bloggers
I think the least important thing about science fiction for me is its predictive capacity.
We humans, you see, have an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.
I had a hollow leg. I could drink everyone under the table and not get drunk. My capacity was terrifying.
Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.
Christian love draws no distinction between one enemy and another, except that the more bitter our enemy's hatred, the greater his need of love. Be his enmity political or religious, he has nothing to expect from a follower of Jesus but unqualified love. In such love there is not inner discord between the private person and official capacity. In both we are disciples of Christ, or we are not Christians at all.
Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting.
Love- however doomed, had the capacity to attach bouys to the soul.
Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
My capacity for happiness," he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Fear narrows the little entrance of our heart. It shrinks up our capacity to love. It freezes up our power to give ourselves.
It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship.
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.
The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level.
