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922 Unable quotes by 723 unique authors

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying… — Jose Saramago
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because… — Soren Kierkegaard
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read… — Charlotte Bronte
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to… — John Berryman
Take these," said the old man, holding out a white stone and a black stone that had been embedded at the center of the breastplate.… — Paulo Coelho
If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they can’t imagine a different world, they… — Rita Dove
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and… — Bell Hooks
Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Those who tell you that man is unable to perceive a reality undistorted by his senses, mean that they are unwilling to perceive a reality… — Ayn Rand
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious… — Richard Matheson
For the first time, I notice the lax skin at Mrs. Nightwing's jaw, the fine down that lies upon her cheek like the imprint of… — Libba Bray
And presently I was driving through the drizzle of the dying day, with the windshield wipers in full action but unable to cope with my… — Vladimir Nabokov
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead… — Milan Kundera
Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead,… — Milan Kundera
What concerns me is that man, unable to articulate, to express himself adequately, reverts to action. Since the vocabulary of action is limited, as it… — Joseph Brodsky
Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by… — W. Somerset Maugham
There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us,… — Simone Weil
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could… — Joseph Conrad
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are… — Aldous Huxley
We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky… — Tite Kubo
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for… — Christopher Paolini
Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything… — Soren Kierkegaard

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