I am incapable of mediocrity.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

— Margaret Mead

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events;…

— Franz Kafka

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

— Douglas Yates

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

— Diane Frolov

“At her tender age she was incapable of understanding such a history,”

— Christine Feehan

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be…

— Annie Baker

“LORD GORING: (after a long pause) Nobody is incapable of doing a foolish thing. Nobody is incapable of doing a wrong thing.”

— Oscar Wilde

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered…

— Seth Shostak

I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.

— Dov Davidoff

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.

— Harold MacMillan

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand,…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and…

— Henry Miller