Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much. — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We have ministers who are incapable of doing what has been ordered from above because there is no follow up, because there… — Basmah bint Saud Copy Share Image
Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For many, the regressive belief in superstitions and miracles is an escape from the hardships of life. Once trapped into irrationalism, they… — Sanal Edamaruku Copy Share Image
This one fact implies everything; and it is scarcely necessary to point out, for instance, that while the Difference Engine can merely… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of… — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
It is a simple matter to see the obvious, to do the expected. The tendency of the individual life is to be… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The… — Frank Chodorov Copy Share Image
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. — Herbert Stein Copy Share Image
Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate… — Livy Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn… — John Berger Copy Share Image
I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
The Germans, in the age of Tacitus, were unacquainted with the use of letters; and the use of letters is the principal… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the… — Karen Horney Copy Share Image
A really intelligent nation might be held together by far stronger forces than are derived from the purely gregarious instincts. A nation… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
We all know well that we can do things for others and in the process crush them, making them feel that they… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
