Unable Quotes
922 quotes by 723 authors
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The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail;…
— Ivan Turgenev
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see…
— Arthur Miller
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If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in color, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in color…
— Johannes Itten
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He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his…
— Colin Powell
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We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of medicine, philosophy, and theology are unable…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to…
— Jose Saramago
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But we made our own fun, mostly. I recall a time, many years later, when American children seemed unable to amuse themselves without a fortune…
— Maureen Johnson
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
— Baltasar Gracian
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I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families…
— Ernest Hemingway
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Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.
— Akira Kurosawa
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Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray…
— Bruce Willis
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The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must…
— Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
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The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong…
— Margaret Mead
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One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be…
— Unknown Author
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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
— Publilius Syrus
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The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
— Plato
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This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make…
— Gautama Buddha
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Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship…
— Gary Steiner
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Finally, mutually, and completely, they released all doubts, abandoned all fears, unwilling and unable to deny this overpowering love.
— R. Lee Ermey
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