Quotes and Sayings About Inability
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Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap.
-- Alan Watts -
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
-- Albert Allen Bartlett -
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
-- Alfred Richard Orage -
We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
-- Angelina Jolie -
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
-- Aristotle -
Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.
-- Ashraf Dehghani -
In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight
-- Augustus Hopkins Strong -
Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
-- Barbara Tuchman -
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
-- Bette Davis -
One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie.
-- Billy Childish -
The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.
-- Brian Tracy -
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
-- C. S. Lewis -
It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.
-- Carl Rogers -
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
-- Charles Bukowski -
The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults.
-- Chris Hedges -
Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions.
-- Cleveland Amory -
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize that, whether they like it or not, they are simply going to have to put up with what to them are excruciatingly slow mental processes, that we humans have embarrassingly low I.Q.'s, and that probably because of these defects, we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplist and most explicit of directions.
-- Cleveland Amory -
The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief.
-- Confucius -
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
-- Cory Booker -
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
-- Daniel Berrigan -
Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.
-- Daniel Gilbert -
I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.
-- David Gilmour -
An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
-- David Hare -
It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.
-- David Levithan
