Unable Quotes

922 quotes by 723 authors

To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. — Wilfred Bion
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are… — Frederick William Faber
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk. — Ambrose Bierce
The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to… — John Cheever
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of… — Timothy Keller
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in. — Gunter Grass
A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may… — Ayn Rand
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge: from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity: raw… — Lewis Mumford
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe… — Bernard Malamud
If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly… — Josiah Royce
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. — Le Corbusier
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and… — Gunnar Myrdal
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. — Jessye Norman
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite, since it can… — Rene Descartes
I was taking piano lessons with a very good piano instructor in Toronto, and I'm afraid due to my schedule and discipline, it kind of… — Geddy Lee
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier… — Abraham Kuyper

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