Incapable Quotes

437 Incapable quotes by 351 unique authors

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. — Douglas Yates
The first virtue of a young man today - that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and… — Stendhal
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. — John Shirley
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
The people who, during the election, were so wise, so moral, so perfect, now have no tendencies whatever; or if they have any, they are… — Frederic Bastiat
There exists in our society widespread fear of judgingâ€¦[B]ehind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence… — Hannah Arendt
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. — Hannah Arendt
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. — Raymond Chandler
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner troubled by longings,… — Saul Bellow
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of… — Ambrose Bierce
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide
Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the... — Walter Benjamin
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. — Jorge Luis Borges
Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. — Richard Evans Schultes
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat… — Tony Gaskins
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation… — James Monroe
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. — Ananda Coomaraswamy
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune… — James De Mille
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy… — Ivor Novello
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of… — Robyn Davidson

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