May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the… — Augustus Hopkins Strong Copy Share Image
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
Loneliness is the inability to share your story, your Unique Self story. For most people, the move beyond loneliness requires us to… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
Question of "Where We Begin" turns to be not only a formal question but also a question central to the attempt to… — Kyle Minor Copy Share Image
Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
If you are reading this, and feel discouraged by an inability to communicate to others your own feelings about the importance of… — Charles Sheffield Copy Share Image
Nobody cares that Mitt Romney is rich. It's Romney's inability to understand the institutional advantage that he gains from the government’s tax… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
The ability of nonintelligent people to understand the most complicated mechanisms and to use them has always been to me a cause… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Despite my inability to qualify to qualify in South Africa, I did really appreciate the support I got from the IOC particularly… — Benjamin Boukpeti Copy Share Image
“The inability to understand the spiritual roots of gluttony (as the inability to sacrifice) or to appreciate a culture’s role in fostering… — Norman Wirzba Copy Share Image
MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Class warfare or soaking the so-called rich may make for good populist demagoguery and serve the political ends of the governing masterminds,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Munroe stared at the sky. Cursed her weakness, her inability to block out what it would mean to knowingly deliver the innocent… — Taylor Stevens Copy Share Image
“Never be limited by others’ inability to think of you in terms big enough or dreams grand enough. Never allow yourself to… — Judy M. Ford Copy Share Image
Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the performance of a stock last year or last month is no reason, per se, to either own… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This may sound arrogant, but I believe that if we'd done teamship better, we'd still be there. Where we fell down was… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, (or for that matter anti-Indian, or anti-Timbuktuan) is not just racist, it's a failure… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are… — William Temple Copy Share Image
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think what drove me away from being a reporter was an inability to accept that the world came in neat stories.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wonder if at this point, I mean, given [Donald's Trump] noted inability to deal with shame, humiliation and loss, and what… — Michelle Goldberg Copy Share Image
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Onstage it was always comfortable for me because that's where I felt at home. Offstage it was a different situation. I was… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Our ability to look back on the past, our need or desire to make sense of it, is both a blessing and… — James Robertson Copy Share Image
When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else. — Nick Vujicic Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Your actions prove you efficiency and your lip service proves your inability.” — GK Dutta Copy Share Image