Inability Quotes

375 quotes by 344 authors

Depression is the inability to construct a future. — Rollo May
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. — John Stuart Mill
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal
Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the… — Steven Pinker
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. — Ezra Pound
Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create… — Gerhard Richter
Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past… — John Updike
I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up… — Bradley Whitford
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a… — H P Lovecraft
I marvel at how good I was before I met him, how I lived molded to the smallest space possible, my days the size of… — Sue Monk Kidd
I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. — Jonathan Safran Foer
All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. — Blaise Pascal
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia Woolf
Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was… — John Jakes
At forty-two, I had never done anything that took my own breath away, and I suppose now that was part of the problem--my chronic inability… — Sue Monk Kidd
I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am… — Rick Bass
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a… — Carl Sagan
This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as… — Paulo Coelho

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