Inability Quotes

375 quotes by 344 authors

Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,… — Jane Jacobs
Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment. — Dr. John
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor… — Fernando Pessoa
There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. — Umberto Eco
I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring… — Sathya Sai Baba
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical… — Simone Weil
Finding happiness is not as simple as having good friends or a full social life. The crunch issue is our ability, or inability, to find… — Mark Vernon
The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies… — Benjamin Franklin
When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual… — Caroline Myss
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. — Tony Judt
There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. — Victor Pelevin
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. — Kim Stanley Robinson
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to… — Julian Schnabel
What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values… — Barack Obama
Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. — Julia Marlowe
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller
The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the… — Tom Robbins
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. — Holger Czukay
A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease,… — Ayn Rand

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