Unsuited Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is…
— George Will
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils it guards against…
— Hugo Black
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There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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People have been modeling their lives after films for years, but the medium is somehow unsuited to moral lessons, cautionary tales or polemics of any…
— Renata Adler
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What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those…
— Aleister Crowley
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The aeroplane is tragically unsuited for ocean service.
— Hugo Eckener
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical…
— Bertrand Russell
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I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We ought not, as soon as we leave church, to plunge into business unsuited to church, but as soon as we get home, we should…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that…
— Simon Schama
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The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as…
— Mark Krikorian
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We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We…
— Ina May Gaskin
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I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for…
— Janis Ian
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Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from…
— Steve Martin
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why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which…
— Marian Keyes
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary…
— James F. Cooper
Who Wrote These Unsuited Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Unsuited Quotes as follows: