Incapacity Quotes

69 quotes by 58 authors

The cowardâ€™s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in othersâ€™… — Sebastian Junger
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to… — Abraham Kaplan
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to. — Edwin Booth
Lets build a monument for the veto. Lets build a monument for impotence and incapacity. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… — Erich Fromm
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'… — Earl Weaver
It is the cult of self that is killing the United States. This cult has within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity… — Chris Hedges
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse. — Robinson Jeffers
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture… — Joan D. Chittister
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal. — Polly Toynbee
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because that no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean… — Paulo Coelho
Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new… — Yann Martel
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive… — Franz Kafka
Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon.… — George Steiner
The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary. — George Bernard Shaw
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
This superficial blurring has something to do with the incapacity I have just mentioned. I can make no statement about reality clearer than my own… — Gerhard Richter
Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward. — Mata Amritanandamayi

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