Unable Quotes

922 quotes by 723 authors

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. — Scott Westerfeld
When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek… — Anais Nin
He was a volatile mixture of confidence and vulnerability. He could deliver extended monologues on professional matters, then promptly stop in his tracks to peer… — Alain de Botton
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.… — William Faulkner
In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only… — Matt Taibbi
Isaac Asimov's remark about the infantilism of pseudoscience is just as applicable to religion: 'Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security… — Richard Dawkins
It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable. — Franz Kafka
Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at… — L.A. Weatherly
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed.… — Sheri S. Tepper
I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not… — Catherynne M. Valente
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the… — Sylvia Plath
Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!â€ â€œAnd you didnâ€™t see that coming?â€ said… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I'd dressed up and hoped and I was so tired of doing that, so tired of dreaming and being unable to stop it despite the… — Elizabeth Scott
One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps… — Libba Bray
When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed… — Naomi Wolf
An unauthentic word, one which is unable to transform reality, results when dichotomy is imposed upon its constitutive elements. When a word is deprived of… — Paulo Freire
Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Anything that we can destroy but are unable to make is, in a sense sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not really explain… — E F Schumacher
Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host. — Garth Stein
I felt like a kid standing in the world's greatest video arcade without any quarters, unable to do anything but walk around and watch the… — Ernest Cline

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