Incapable Quotes

437 Incapable quotes by 351 unique authors

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with… — William Ernest Henley
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. — Norman Mailer
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that… — Giacomo Leopardi
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us… — Thomas Merton
I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. — John Denver
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
The nearest my parents came to alcohol was at Holy Communion and they utterly overestimated its effects. However bad the weather, Dad never drove to… — Alan Bennett
I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. — Meshell Ndegeocello
Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and… — Benjamin Hoff
I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. — Busy Philipps
It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of… — Josiah Warren
The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the… — Paul Westerberg
I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons… — A. N. Wilson
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something… — Stephen Bayley
I do still get extremely nervous before speeches. My biggest fear is that I'll be standing there in front of hundreds of people and be… — Marcus Buckingham
If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody… — Duff Goldman
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. — Grant Bowler
The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. — Friedrich Nietzsche
...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. — Saint John Chrysostom
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its own sake, incapable… — Henry Fielding
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. — Georges Braque
In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. — Ansel Adams
Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we… — Andrea Dworkin

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