Unable Quotes
922 quotes by 723 authors
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In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or…
— Paul Ekman
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All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for…
— Charles Brockden Brown
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Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.
— Dionysius Lardner
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When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long…
— Hideki Tojo
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The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in…
— Howard Nemerov
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Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal…
— Joseph M. Juran
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Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this…
— Maria Montessori
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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against…
— Lion Feuchtwanger
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We Poor Cousins don’t care at all though, except for when we’re on welfare, broke, starving, unable to buy cool high-tops for our children or…
— Miriam Toews
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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still…
— Andrew Sullivan
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I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold,
— Andrew Sullivan
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All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference ... to…
— Werner Erhard
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Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer…
— Jean-Henri Fabre
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Don’t complain about being unable to afford high-quality local food when your grocery cart is full of beer, cigarettes, and People magazine.
— Joel Salatin
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I had come to the conclusion a long time ago that there was no escape from the labyrinth of contradictions in which we live except…
— P D Ouspensky
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I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him
— Friedrich Durrenmatt
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How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls…
— Nina Simone
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Where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
— Stephen Dobyns
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