Incapable Quotes

437 Incapable quotes by 351 unique authors

...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills… — Henry James
...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which… — Jose Saramago
People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more,… — Paulo Coelho
Folly consists not in committing Folly, but in being incapable of concealing it. All men make mistakes, but the wise conceal the blunders they have… — Baltasar Gracian
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate… — Ivan Turgenev
...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to… — Kurt Vonnegut
Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. — Michael Pollan
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. — Bette Greene
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily… — Thornton Wilder
In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the… — George Orwell
Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. — Pope John Paul II
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship,… — Hermann Hesse
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But… — George Bernard Shaw
A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. — Albert Camus
It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that's… — John Ruskin
Brigan," she said, annoyed that he had not understood. "I’ll always be beautiful. Look at me. I have one hundred and sixty two bug bites,… — Kristin Cashore
I am surprised how difficult for people is to say "I love you". They only say the three magic words when they are sure they… — Paulo Coelho
One glance and I knew exactly who and what he was. The classic alpha male, the kind who had spurred evolution forward about five million… — Lisa Kleypas
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain… — Joan Didion
To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. — David Foster Wallace
In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it’s a good thing we’re in the twenty-first century and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the… — J R Ward
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions… — Charles Dickens

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