Incapable Quotes - Page 5

• Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Envy, Hatred, Reconciliation

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• The ... problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a "real" man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who "goes with" other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.

  Quentin Crisp

  Real, Men, Winning

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• God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

  Louis de Bernieres

  God, Religious, Heart

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• A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pay, Stolen, Workers

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Agency, Euclid

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Sides, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.100, Penguin Books India

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• My father is incapable of showing much affection, or even of carrying on a conversation. I didn't want to have a relationship with him just because he's my blood relative. It would bore me.

  Kurt Cobain

  Father, Blood, Want

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, People, Envy

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communicating their knowledge, but those who can communicate it are novelists. They are good novelists precisely because they are good psychologists.

  Anthony Standen

  Communication, Science, People

  Anthony Standen (1950). “Science is a sacred cow”

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• Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

  Ai Weiwei

  Meaningful, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think that you could design a terrible logo for a good company with great people and they could build it into a great program. Alternatively you could design what seems to be a brilliant logo for people who are not smart or energetic or are incapable of associating with anything positive and it would become a terrible logo.

  Michael Bierut

  Smart, Thinking, People

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Eggs, Two

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

  Malcolm X

  Eggs, Ducks, Afros

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

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• I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

  Gene Weingarten

  Thinking, Trump

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Allison Janney is the best actor on the series.Allison is one of the few actors I ever worked with who is incapable of hitting a false note.

  Rob Lowe

  Actors, Hitting, Notes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The idea that people are incapable of making up their own minds about people is something that Obama and his party live with every day.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Ideas, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• What matters is the way we Americans think about ourselves. We think about ourselves as incapable of committing crimes. Everything we do, we make a lot of errors, you know, you can't help it. Mistakes all over the place, but out of naïveté or, you know, misplaced kindness or something like that.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kindness, Mistake, Thinking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

  Gary Oldman

  Lying, Spy, Terrible

  "Gary Oldman: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2011.

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• Goals incapable of attainment have driven many a man to despair, but despair is easier to get to than that -- one need merely look out of the window, for example.

  Donald Barthelme

  Men, Goal, Despair

  Donald Barthelme (2008). “Flying to America: 45 More Stories”, p.144, Counterpoint Press

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• This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Ideas, Insanity

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• There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

  Annie Baker

  Character, Play, Would Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.

  Richard Rorty

  Wish, Able, Heidegger

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• When we turn around & come face to face with our destiny, we discover that words (spoken) are not enough. I know so many people who are brilliant speakers but are quite incapable of practising what they preach. It's one thing to describe a situation & quite another to experience it. I realised a long time ago that a warrior in search of his dream must take his inspiration from what he actually does & not from what he imagines himself doing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Inspiration, Warrior

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• No religion I ever encountered made any sense. None are consistent. Most gods are megalomaniacs and paranoid psychotics by their worshippers' description. I don't see how they could survive their own insanity. But it's not impossible that human beings are incapable of interpreting a power so much greater than themselves. Maybe religions are twisted and perverted shadows of truth. Maybe there are forces which shape the world. I myself have never understood why, in a universe so vast, a god would care about something so trivial as worship or human destiny.

  Glen Cook

  Destiny, Insanity, Shadow

  "The White Rose". Book by Glen Cook, 1985.

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• I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself into a seer. You won't understand any of this, and I'm almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It's really not my fault.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Strong, Ideas, Suffering

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