Unable Quotes
922 Unable quotes by 723 unique authors
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Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne well those laid on you; it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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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 amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.
— Unknown Author
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The solidarity which binds all men together as members of a common family makes it impossible for wealthy nations to look with indifference upon the…
— Pope John XXIII
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The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every…
— Emma Goldman
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It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely…
— Unknown Author
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After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.
— Suzanne Farrell
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Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt-and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness-a little relieved when they were…
— Jan Struther
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Anxiety leads to a narrowing of the field of attention, the so-called tunnel vision, and when people are anxious, they are unable to attend to…
— James A.C. Brown
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We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have…
— Judson Cornwall
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
— Seneca the Younger
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I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now,…
— Mark Twain
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To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.
— John Cheever
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from…
— Mario Cuomo
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People are too keen to follow standard preconceptions of how organisations should work. All too often, we feel that we are unable to make changes…
— Ricardo Semler
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Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I…
— Peter Eisenman
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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
— Emile Durkheim
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Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that…
— Chief Seattle
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Sometimes, particularly in summers in New York, I have tried to write in shorts or with no shirt on and found myself unable to do…
— Alan Bennett
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Whenever I write a novel, I have a strong sense that I am doing something I was unable to do before. With each new work,…
— Haruki Murakami
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The success of the suffrage movement would injure women spiritually and intellectually, for they would be assuming a burden though they knew themselves unable to…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your…
— Henry Rollins
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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer…
— Alice Walker
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