Unable Quotes
922 Unable quotes by 723 unique authors
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There are none among us who have not been, even for a moment, cruel to those whom we love most, as if unable, in that…
— Rick Bass
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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to…
— Maya Angelou
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The trainee knew he should leave, but he was unable to look away. He'd never seen anything snap out so fast or strike so hard…
— J R Ward
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You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to…
— Unknown Author
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What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing…
— Alice Hoffman
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to…
— Agatha Christie
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Restrooms at gas stations were an unpleasant and shocking surprise; I had never considered the serious drawbacks of such lazily-cleaned rooms. I was completely unable…
— Rachel Caine
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I shook my head and turned away, unable to hear this. “I’m leaving now. I really don’t want to see you again. Nothing personal. Well,…
— Richelle Mead
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It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the words, and perhaps…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you…
— Og Mandino
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It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one…
— Thomas Merton
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There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—”…
— Gaelen Foley
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Sanity, as the project of keeping ourselves recognizably human, therefore has to limit the range of human experience. To keep faith with recognition we have…
— Adam Phillips
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The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for…
— Hannah Arendt
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Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you…
— Daniel Handler
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Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
— Ellen Hopkins
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It takes a lot of strength to hold onto and care for the things we love, so why is it that god seems to have…
— Ai Yazawa
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People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.
— Paulo Coelho
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And yet many of us do it without families," Nynaeve said. "Without love, without passion beyond our own particular interests. So even while we try…
— Robert Jordan
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An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender
— Novala Takemoto
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We are so bemused by our own petard, that we are unable to look at things objectively.
— Julia Child
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to…
— Jonathan Edwards
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So, what now? We’re friends?" Yeah. If friends could be in love, but not together. In sync, but out of touch. Willing to die for…
— Rachel Vincent
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