It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself,” — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet unable to bridge… — Safak Pavey Copy Share Image
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead. — Megan Boyle Copy Share Image
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy. — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.' — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?” — Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. — George Herbert Palmer Copy Share Image
I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
If you're at an antiques fair, and have been unable to beat the dealer down earlier in the day, pay a return… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time,… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Parents are working more than ever before and unable to monitor what kids are eating at home, and schools are selling astronomical… — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
It turns out that American Express honors recurring payments even if the vendor is unable to supply an accurate card number and… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can… — Brenda Laurel Copy Share Image
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn’t say it. This… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“You should not face the world if you are unable to give to the world,” — Diane Mott Davidson Copy Share Image
I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
“SoulShared. Bonded. Completed. Able to die. And still unable to love. This” — Rory Ni Coileain Copy Share Image
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. — Joe Wurzelbacher Copy Share Image
Never scold or beat a child until he starts asking you questions whose answers you are unable to give. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I literally cannot even. I can't even. I am unable to even. I have lost my ability to even. I am so… — Tyler Oakley Copy Share Image
“There was just something about other people’s expectations that made her freeze in place, unable to function.” — Jessica Clare Copy Share Image
If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis. — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to… — Benjamin E. Mays Copy Share Image
