Inability Quotes - Page 13

• We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability.

  Richard Sennett

  Obsession, Failing, Craftsman

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• I just have an inability to lie.

  Paloma Faith

  Lying

  "Paloma Faith: 'I have an inability to lie" by Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2012.

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• A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.

  Ayn Rand

  Zero, Suffering, Weakness

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.32, Penguin

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• I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.

  Rick Bass

  Dog, Family And Friends, Comfort

  Rick Bass (2001). “Colter: The True Story of the Best Dog I Ever Had”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The inability to correctly perceive reality is often responsible for humans' insane behavior. And every time they substitute an all-purpose, sloppy slang word for the words that would accurately describe an emotion or a situation, it lowers their reality orientations, pushes them farther from shore, out onto the foggy waters of alienation and confusion.

  Tom Robbins

  Reality, Water, Confusion

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.77, Bantam

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• When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

  John R. Rice

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Poor

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• The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

  Edward Teller

  Race, Extinction, Function

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• Keep my eyes fixed on You, Lord. Help me to stop tinkering and realize my total inability to change. I look to You to change me and give me victory as I focus on Your friendly eyes looking lovingly at me. Amen.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Eye, Giving, Focus

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• One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

  Dick Cheney

  Work, Intelligent, Government

  Interview with Brit Hume, www.washingtonpost.com. February 15, 2006.

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• To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

  Denis de Rougemont

  Passion, Love Is, Flight

  Denis de Rougemont (1983). “Love in the Western World”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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• Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words.

  Mary Jo Weaver

  Real, Names, Long

  Mary Jo Weaver (1993). “Springs of Water in a Dry Land: Spiritual Survival for Catholic Women Today”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Men, Practice, Ideas

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• 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

  Mean, Frustration, Moments

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• What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.

  Robert Benchley

  Party, Missing, Curiosity

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• Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape of them was pretty much determined by the original work. With my own plays, the only changes, aside from taking a speech out here, putting one in there (if I thought I dwelled on a point a little too long or didn't make it explicit enough), are very minor; but even though they're very minor - having to do with the inability of actors or the unwillingness of the director to go along with me - I've always regretted them.

  Edward Albee

  Play, Two, Long

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When one of us dies of cancer, loses her mind, or commits suicide, we must not blame her for her inability to survive an ongoing political mechanism bent on the destruction of that human being. Sanity remains defined simply by the ability to cope with insane conditions.

  Ana Castillo

  Suicide, Cancer, Political

  Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books

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• Madness in Civilization is a brilliant, provocative, and hugely entertaining history of the treatment and mistreatment of the mentally ill. Packed with bizarre details and disturbing facts, Andrew Scull's book offers fresh and compelling insights on the way medicine's inability to solve the mystery of madness has both haunted and shaped two thousand years of culture. Required reading for anyone who has ever gone to a shrink!

  Dirk Wittenborn

  Reading, Book, Medicine

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• What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.

  H. L. Mencken

  War, Writing, Character

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.173, Vintage

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• PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  Chaz Bufe

  Country, Government, Feelings

  Chaz Bufe (2014). “Provocations: Don't Call Them Libertarians, AA Lies, and Other Incitements”, p.168, See Sharp Press

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• Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

  Chuck Todd

  Emotion, Trump, Standing

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think an appeal to American idealism and willingness to sacrifice would be an important contribution, because what is happening now in many countries, not yet in the United States, but in many European countries, it's the inability of government to ask for sacrifices of its people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

  Paul Feig

  Comedy, Enjoy, Ifs

  Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2011.

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• As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Children, People, Superhero

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• Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.

  Gerhard Richter

  Jealous, Inferiority, Tables

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007”

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• Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

  George H. W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Frustrated

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