Ably Quotes

#1. there is the truism, so ably articulated by Luther in his response to Erasmus on the will, that the task of the preacher is to preach God's Word, not to second-guess what the practical problems such causes may

Andrew David Naselli

#2. Social media listening tools make it easy to track brand references and mentions, and these functions can still be handled ably by a small, dedicated team.

Ryan Holmes

#3. Life tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and you find there's nothing in them.

Alvin C. York

#4. When superior people hear guidance, they carry it out diligently and ably. When mediocre people hear guidance, it seems vague and uncertain. When lesser people hear guidance, they laugh.

Lao-Tzu

#5. American society has tried so hard and so ably to defend the practice and theory of production for profit and not primarily for use that now it has succeeded in making its jobs and products profitable and useless.

Paul Goodman

#6. The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

Edward Gibbon

#7. If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all.

Will Durant

#8. I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Henry R. Luce

#9. One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

John Hodgman

#10. Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.

David Halberstam

#11. We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.

Ann Macbeth

#12. How it chanced that a man who reasoned on his premises so ably, should assume his premises so foolishly, is one of the great mysteries of human nature.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. Night, and besides, was ably helped by brave comrades." "The comrades he speaks of," Ivor said, "were too busy

Kazuo Ishiguro

#14. You should be able to quit ten things you're good at to master one thing you're best at.

Sarvesh Jain

#15. All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

Jonathan Frid

#16. Tell me we're dead and I'll love you even more.

Richard Siken

#17. I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.

Danielle Panabaker

#18. I think the trick is knowing where you're supposed to be, and lettig go of everything else long enough to be there.

Todd Johnson

#19. how
does this outer life, apocalypse
reported, penetrate my dreams

Ron Silliman

#20. The schoolmastering profession has always attracted homosexual flagellants

Burgo Partridge

#21. A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions and the passions of our heroes even at a distance of centuries.

Valerio Massimo Manfredi

#22. Shut up and write.

Chuck Wendig

#23. I feel like in Atlanta, if you were a female dancer, the more you can dance like the boys, the more respect you get. I was thrust into that kind of dance culture, and it was in my body.

Janina Gavankar

#24. It's funny how we all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.

Habeeb Akande