Inability Quotes

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A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan
Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They… — Ray Bradbury
I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his… — Jim Cymbala
The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. — Elizabeth Gilbert
But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind… — Chuck Klosterman
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice… — Isabel Allende
The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as… — Terry Tempest Williams
She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a… — Jane Austen
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing… — H P Lovecraft
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. — James Thurber
There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a… — John Wyndham
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of… — Jean Cocteau
Upon reflection, I decided I had three main weaknesses: I was confused (evidenced by a lack of facts, an inability to coordinate my thoughts, and… — Julia Child
As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to… — Muriel Barbery
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingâ€”they are not all bad. Those devils have been my… — Stephen Fry
Weâ€™re not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws — Audrey Niffenegger
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the… — Bill Watterson
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one… — Neal Shusterman

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