Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
Edmund Cooper
The joy of love when it comes late is like the burning of a green log, which gives out all the more heat and keeps its ability to do so all the longer, the slower it is to kindle.
Crestens de Troies
The dismissal of our anger as a racial minority is worse than any slur or epithet because it undermines our ability to react to it.
Moran Margaret Cho
Leadership is mostly a power over imagination, and never more so than in combat. The bravest man alone can only be an armed lunatic. The real strength lies in the ability to get others to do your work.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
Heywood Broun
Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.
Vanna Bonta
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.
Charles Bukowski
Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Henry Steele Commager
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
[Graham Greenes] ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter (1948); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.
Anthony Burgess
My friend Eduardo made $300,000 betting oil futures one summer, and Eduardo won't come close to getting in. The ability to make money doesn't impress anybody around here.
Mark Zuckerberg
We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice. You may have the "capacity" to love, but if left undeveloped, you will never gain the "ability."
Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.
Vanna Bonta
One of the greatest satisfactions in life comes from getting things done and knowing you have done them to the best of your ability.
Robert W. Bly