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922 quotes by 723 authors

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that… — Havelock Ellis
Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of… — Lee H. Hamilton
Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the… — Stephen Harper
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. — Tony Hawk
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they… — Niccolo Machiavelli
There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think… — Herman Melville
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to… — H. L. Mencken
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. — Angela Merkel
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. — Henry Miller
I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell. — Unknown Author
I am unable to watch the Olympics due to the blustering jingoism that drenches the event. Has England ever been quite so foul with patriotism?… — Steven Morrissey
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so… — Lewis Mumford
At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold… — Roh Moo-hyun
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. — Anais Nin
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.… — Henri Nouwen
Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an… — Joyce Carol Oates
The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border. — Lucy Powell
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause. — Edward Said

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