The deepest poverty is the inability of joy, the tediousness of a life considered absurd and contradictory. This poverty is widespread today,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead… — Neil Abramson Copy Share Image
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The mystery of life is certainly the most persistent problem ever placed before the thought of man. There is no doubt that… — Guglielmo Marconi Copy Share Image
It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control:… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A peculiar side of credulity is that it is often joined with a proneness to imposture. The association of believing and lying… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. — Josh Marshall Copy Share Image
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Remember that introverts react not only to new people, but also to new places and events. So don’t mistake a child’s caution… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
While Hurricane Katrina demonstrated the dangers of failing to evacuate hospitals from the path of a storm, Hurricane Gustav demonstrated that moving… — Sheri Fink Copy Share Image
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
Everything is poisoned, and it's all poisoned from greed. I think our inability to communicate with each other and everything that's happening… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
