Dear Lord, I've been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us... a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird... a social being... capable of actual affection... nuzzling its young with almost human- like compassion. Anyway, it's dead and we're gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family...
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.
We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy to a friend.
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.