“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
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Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892–1983Related quotes
“My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.”
responding to allegations in
2010s, 2012 Presidential campaign
Context: I have prescription medication that I take whenever symptoms arise and they keep the migraines under control. I'd like to be abundantly clear: My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander-in-chief.
“Responsibility is the ability to respond.”
“I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.”
Letter to His Mother (1609)
“My talent was the uncompromising ability to feel spite.”
Source: Grotesque
“Men's mind and abilities grow and expand with use of responsibilities.”
Source: The Visible Hand (1977), p. 181; Cited in: Best (1990, p. 61).
“My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.”
As quoted in "Anne Hathaway: 'I'd Rather Be Strong Than Skinny'" in in People magazine (8 March 2007) http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20014366,00.html
“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement …”
As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 511,
Post-war years (1945–1955)
Context: My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement … Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one’s better half.