“With this imaginary mandate from God, men have not allowed women to be given the educational, religous and social freedoms that are necessary for women to free themselves and become all that they are capable of being.” MenGivenSocialWomenCapableEnlightenmentEducationalImaginaryMandates Author:Frederick Lenz
“The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.” IfsMenHas BeensWholeGivenChanceKingsCapableConstitutionAssumption Author:A. P. Herbert
“I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.” PeopleTryingYearsI CanValuesGivenMy OwnCapableStandardsExpectationsCarefulBest WorkFaith And Love Author:Jackie DeShannon
“We have the ability to choose, we are God's higher form of creation, we surpass all other forms of life and we don't use the mental faculties we've been given. We don't even understand what we are capable of doing. School doesn't teach us anything about ourselves. So the more we learn about ourselves, the more we take control over our life.” UseSchoolFormGivenAbilityTeachOur LivesCreationHigherCapableFacultyTake ControlAbility To Choose Author:Bob Proctor
“To approach a city, or even a city neighborhood, as if it were a larger architectural problem, capable of being given order by converting it into a disciplined work of art, is to make the mistake of attempting to substitute art for life. The results of such profound confusion between art and life are neither life nor art. They are taxidermy.” IfsArtProblemOrderGivenResultsCitiesMistakeApproachCapableArt IsProfoundConfusionNeighborhoodWorks Of ArtSubstitutesAttemptingConvertingArt And LifeTaxidermy Book:The Death and Life of Great American Cities Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.” PeopleWorldHumansHas BeensSelfFactsGivenBlackIssuesSelf LoveCapableRegardNotionHatedAgencyChanging The WorldSelf RespectDespisedConceiving Author:Cornel West
“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.” ThinkingCountryTurnsFallGivenFireTreePromiseCreatingCapableEuropeSeasonsBrownAutumnYellowContinentsFrostCreating BeautyPortents Author:Archibald MacLeish