Unable Quotes
922 quotes by 739 authors
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A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.
— Paul Gauguin
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The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes…
— Joseph Addison
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It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given…
— Niall Williams
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There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.
— Herbert Benson
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American banks may have been unable to supply adequate loans, but the Rothschild consortium in Britain was both able and willing. It was during this…
— G. Edward Griffin
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What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet…
— Ludwig Buchner
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Believers obey Christ as the one whom our obedience is accepted by God. Believers know all their duties are weak, imperfect, and unable to abide…
— John Owen
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Science has so far been unable to tell us how self-aware dogs are, much less whether they have anything like our conscious thoughts. This is…
— John Bradshaw
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Charisma becomes the undoing of leaders. It makes them inflexible, convinced of their own infallibility, unable to change
— Peter Drucker
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On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental.…
— Stephen Harper
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Of course I am very proud of being a Tory. Yes, in my head and in my heart I regard myself as a Tory. As…
— Enoch Powell
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We ought to be opening up our borders to skilled labour from all parts of the world because [the state of the world is as…
— Alan Greenspan
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Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.
— Lisa Nicole Carson
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Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.
— Chris Martin
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Having therefore no foreign establishments, either colonial or military, the ships of war of the United States, in war, will be like land birds, unable…
— Alfred Thayer Mahan
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Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs
— J. R. Ackerley
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I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good biological…
— Julian Assange
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Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to…
— H. L. Mencken
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