Unable Quotes

922 quotes by 723 authors

However appalling to consider, however tedious to enact, every novel requires furniture, whether it is to be named or unnamed, for the characters will be… — Jonathan Lethem
Even you, whoâ€™ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,… — Paul Auster
I never thought we'd ever have a black president. President Obama has done such a tremendous job He just has been unable to get what… — Hank Aaron
People who are unable to use their hands skillfully for all kinds of work, will not become good thinkers and will behave awkwardly in life.… — Rudolf Steiner
I just think in this world of extreme religious pluralism, the great spectrum of things ranging from the healthy and the respectable, and the balance… — Peter Hollingworth
People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them. — Robert Kiyosaki
Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it… — Hermann Hesse
Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profoundâ€”people such as my boring brother-in-law,… — Douglas Coupland
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. — Ben Macintyre
Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time… — Zelig Pliskin
I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what… — Luci Swindoll
Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… — Sylvia Plath
Overconsumption is a "cancer eating away at our spiritual vitals." It cuts the heart right out of our compassion. It distances us from the great… — Richard J. Foster
People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in… — Nhat Hanh
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. — Plato
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world… — Honore de Balzac
With a woman, always make good use of a secret. She will be proportionally grateful to you, like a scoundrel who grants his respect to… — Honore de Balzac
The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world… — Stephen Jay Gould
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy… — Dave Barry

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