“You helped me discover my ability to want.”— Spike Jonze, Samantha (voice), Scarlett Johansson, imdb.com
“I no longer need to rule the world, Chay-Ara. I now have the ability to change it.”— Phil Klemmer, Chris Fedak, Vandal Savage, Casper Crump, imdb.com
“Everyone wants the ability to prevent bad things from happening, but unfortunately, sometimes it’s just a matter of chance.”— Cristine Chambers, Ward Meachum, Tom Pelphrey, imdb.com
“Superior ability breeds superior ambition.”— Gene L. Coon, Carey Wilber, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com
“Do my countrymen need any assurance that such a catastrophe is not to overtake them while I possess the power to stay it?”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her…”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“Do not talk to your mother and father when you’re crying. Because what happens is, your mom has the ability to make you weep even more, and your dad makes you feel like a fucking idiot.”— Dane Cook, youtube.com
“Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him.”— Stokely Carmichael, successories.com
“Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.”— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com
“The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!”— Adam Savage, imdb.com
“Our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards . . . helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.”— Philip Zimbardo, amazon.com
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”— Jacques Cousteau, en.wikiquote.org
“Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.”— Alan Shepard, goodreads.com
“What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.”— Edmund Hillary, amazon.com