Quotes about Incapable

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction. Votes: 3

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. Votes: 3

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never. Votes: 3

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature. Votes: 3

Incapable of enjoying the moment, the male needs something to look forward to, and money provides him with an eternal, never-ending goal: Just think of what you could do with 80 trillion dollars -- invest it! And in three years time you'd have 300 trillion dollars!!! Votes: 3

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Votes: 2

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. Votes: 2

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like. Votes: 2

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Votes: 2

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Votes: 2

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Votes: 2

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. Votes: 2

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity. Votes: 2

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. Votes: 2

We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country. Votes: 2

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. Votes: 2

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype. Votes: 2

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love. Votes: 2

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. Votes: 2

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. Votes: 2

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people. Votes: 2

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed. Votes: 2

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes. Votes: 2

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive. Votes: 2

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. Votes: 2

Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. Votes: 2

The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand. Votes: 2

As you get older and wiser you realize that when people are given anything without having to earn it (unless they are physically or mentally utterly incapable of earning anything), they become ungrateful and lazy. They also become less happy. Votes: 2

After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to California. By the time Sunday rolled around, I was incapable of enjoying the day's activities, of being in the moment, because I was already dreading the inevitable goodbye of Sunday evening. Votes: 2

If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if. Votes: 2

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible. Votes: 2

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. Votes: 1

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love. Votes: 1

It seems that humanity is incapable of putting a halt to the shedding of innocent blood. Votes: 1

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return. Votes: 1

I am incapable of mediocrity. Votes: 0

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. Votes: 0

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting. Votes: 0

I'm incapable of feeling any joy. Votes: 0

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Votes: 0

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness. Votes: 0

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. Votes: 0

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. Votes: 0

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. Votes: 0

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film. Votes: 0

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch. Votes: 0

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is. Votes: 0

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering. Votes: 0

Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government. Votes: 0

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness. Votes: 0

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs. Votes: 0

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition. Votes: 0

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy. Votes: 0

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. Votes: 0

I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself. Votes: 0

I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy. Votes: 0

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof. Votes: 0

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving. Votes: 0

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Votes: 0

Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. Votes: 0

I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise. Votes: 0

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything Votes: 0

Collective states are constitutionally incapable of reliably producing anything but corpses. Votes: 0

People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself. Votes: 0

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann. Votes: 0

I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails. Votes: 0

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature. Votes: 0

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job. Votes: 0

It is often said that our modern world is incapable of self-government. Votes: 0

Modern capitalism appears totally incapable of mobilizing these untapped human and resources. Votes: 0

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. Votes: 0

I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of. Votes: 0

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt. Votes: 0

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural. Votes: 0

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPenitent: Someone who has been made incapable of enjoying himself. Votes: 0

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth. Votes: 0

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness. Votes: 0

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. Votes: 0

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. Votes: 0

Libertarians are incapable of being a racist, because racism is a collectivist idea. Votes: 0

People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. Votes: 0

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. Votes: 0

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. Votes: 0

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Votes: 0

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. Votes: 0

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything. Votes: 0

A man without tea in him is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. Votes: 0

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Votes: 0

Come, let's be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. Votes: 0

Press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the... Votes: 0

Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. Votes: 0

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue. Votes: 0

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire... Votes: 0

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable. Votes: 0

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. Votes: 0

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction. Votes: 0

Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about. Votes: 0

A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them. Votes: 0

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false. Votes: 0

The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines. Votes: 0

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. Votes: 0

Those with very loud voices in their throats are nearly incapable of thinking subtle thoughts. Votes: 0

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. Votes: 0

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. Votes: 0

No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness. Votes: 0

I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. Votes: 0

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. Votes: 0

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. Votes: 0

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere. Votes: 0

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else. Votes: 0

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body. Votes: 0

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Votes: 0

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction. Votes: 0

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. Votes: 0

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing. Votes: 0

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it. Votes: 0

We have to care what someone thinks of us. We are incapable of seeing ourselves [sometimes]. Votes: 0

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes Votes: 0

Those who devote their lives to earning a living are incapable of living a human existence. Votes: 0

If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person. Votes: 0

It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty. Votes: 0

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it. Votes: 0

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few. Votes: 0

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors. Votes: 0

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women. Votes: 0

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions. Votes: 0

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration. Votes: 0

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. Votes: 0

It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. Votes: 0

Genius is a plodding intellect, incapable of dreaming up the obstacles that stop the rest of us. Votes: 0

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune. Votes: 0

I think I am becoming incapable of being too surprised. But it just makes me sad and sick. Votes: 0

Who knows what it is, but he [Donald Trump] is incapable of having a consistent thought or policy. Votes: 0

Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. Votes: 0

Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. Votes: 0

Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is. Votes: 0

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights. Votes: 0

The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. Votes: 0

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. Votes: 0

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. Votes: 0

Environmentalism has become a special interest, incapable of addressing large, complex, and global problems such as global warming. Votes: 0

I am an invisible monster, and I am incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse. Votes: 0

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously. Votes: 0

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood. Votes: 0

My personal life absolutely goes down the drain when I start working; that's something that I'm incapable of doing. Votes: 0

To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves. Votes: 0

Those who constantly qualify everything and have no opinions of their own are ultimately just as incapable of tolerance. Votes: 0

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much. Votes: 0

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart. Votes: 0

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. Votes: 0

I sometimes think that animals are incapable of the kinds of cruelty that humans willingly inflict on each other. Votes: 0

Now he was nothing to her, just a lesson in time, a wicked boy-man, incapable of wealth or prestige. Votes: 0

The slaves in Rome were incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified. Votes: 0

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant. Votes: 0

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances. Votes: 0

Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies. Votes: 0

If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable. Votes: 0

After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests. Votes: 0

Social conditioning, accompanied by moral and mental constraints, now serve to render the mediocre mind nearly incapable of unbiased assessment. Votes: 0

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed. Votes: 0

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience. Votes: 0

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. Votes: 0

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time. Votes: 0

I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive. Votes: 0

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others. Votes: 0

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. Votes: 0

She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it. Votes: 0

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Votes: 0

Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat. Votes: 0

Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed. Votes: 0

To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people. Votes: 0

I don't understand why things always go from perfect to weird with us. It's like we're incapable of normal human interaction. Votes: 0

I never felt I was incapable of succeeding because I felt confident I could always learn what I needed to know. Votes: 0

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information. Votes: 0

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it. Votes: 0

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid. Votes: 0

What evidence do we have that states are incapable of further exercising an authority they have exercised successfully for over 200 years? Votes: 0

Toward the end of his life, [Arnold] Toynby said the Christianity he saw developing was brittle, imperialistic and incapable of reforming itself. Votes: 0

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. Votes: 0

And the venality of those Judaized is incapable of explaining anti-Semitism as a social phenomenon, we will call it the anti-Semitic theory. Votes: 0

Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency. Votes: 0

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction. Votes: 0

A dependent clause is like a dependent child: incapable of standing on its own but able to cause a lot of trouble. Votes: 0

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself. Votes: 0

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way. Votes: 0

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. Votes: 0

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. Votes: 0

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius. Votes: 0

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance. Votes: 0

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him. Votes: 0

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death? Votes: 0

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops. Votes: 0

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self. Votes: 0

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. Votes: 0

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. Votes: 0

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change. Votes: 0

Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion." Votes: 0

Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security. Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States. Votes: 0

He bombarded me with words, of all things, apparently clueless to the fact that the predawn hours rendered me incapable of coherent thought. Votes: 0

Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. Votes: 0

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all. Votes: 0

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color. Votes: 0

I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life. Votes: 0

God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be. Votes: 0

The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong. Votes: 0

If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only be setting someone free. Votes: 0

A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem. Votes: 0

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. Votes: 0

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. Votes: 0

Maybe she'd go for a walk, just her and the pink switchblade. They were a good pair. Both incapable of opening up without cutting someone. Votes: 0

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate. Votes: 0

In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose. Votes: 0

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while. Votes: 0

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. Votes: 0

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them. Votes: 0

When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of. Votes: 0

I felt held hostage by her illness and by the backward mental health system that once again was incapable of helping our family in crisis. Votes: 0

to be civilized is to be incapable of giving unnecessary offense, it is to have some quality of consideration for all who cross our path. Votes: 0

People are incapable of stereotyping you; you stereotype yourself because you're the one who accepts roles that put you in this rut or in this stereotype Votes: 0

I never understood how men could remember all those details about sports but, yet, were incapable of remembering where they set their car keys or wallet. Votes: 0

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes. Votes: 0

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole? Votes: 0

As an advisor, I can say what I want. If I were a politician, I would constantly have to compromise, and I'm incapable of doing that. Votes: 0

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information. is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science. Votes: 0

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis. Votes: 0

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped. Votes: 0

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves. Votes: 0

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore. Votes: 0

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded. Votes: 0

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. Votes: 0

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride. Votes: 0

Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments. Votes: 0

Have faith that God won't send you anything you're incapable of handling. You can decide that the word fear is an acronym for... False Evidence Appearing Real. Votes: 0

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India. Votes: 0

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life. Votes: 0

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance. Votes: 0

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation Votes: 0

The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. Votes: 0

You're here so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable. Votes: 0

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another. Votes: 0

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself. Votes: 0

One thing that has made a big comeback just recently is this business of speaking with the dead. To my innocent mind, 'dead' implies incapable of communicating. Votes: 0

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk. Votes: 0

Government seems to operate on the principle that if even one individual is incapable of using his freedom competently, no one can be allowed to be free. Votes: 0

My intention is not to define a perfect life and then cause an unhappy analysis of what you are not doing correctly or are incapable of doing. Votes: 0

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. Votes: 0

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another? Votes: 0

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable. Votes: 0

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception. Votes: 0

Feminist art may... though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme... should we call it 'joy'? Votes: 0

All the goods of this world...are finite and limited and radically incapable of satisfying the desire that perpetually burns within us for an infinite and perfect good. Votes: 0

I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him. Votes: 0

Reagan did not suffer from the dismal plague of doubts which has assailed so many politicians in our times and which has rendered them incapable of clear decisions. Votes: 0

...for human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born.. Votes: 0

Major political parties have a role, but they are incapable of initiating fundamental change because they are fundamentally tied to the status quo. They are the status quo. Votes: 0

Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like. Votes: 0

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time. Votes: 0

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life! Votes: 0

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication. Votes: 0

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval. Votes: 0

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true. Votes: 0

Recollect that the Almighty, who gave the dog to be companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath invested him with a nature noble and incapable of deceit. Votes: 0

The moment the organic unity of belief and behaviour is damaged in any way, we are incapable of living out the full humanity for which we were created. Votes: 0

The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. Votes: 0

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence. Votes: 0

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others. Votes: 0

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. Votes: 0

Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything "” most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna. Votes: 0

You will be able to appreciate the influence of such an Engine on the future progress of science. I live in a country which is incapable of estimating it. Votes: 0

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering. Votes: 0

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. Votes: 0

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive. Votes: 0

Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. Votes: 0

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it. Votes: 0

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. Votes: 0

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. Votes: 0

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it. Votes: 0

The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. Votes: 0

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. Votes: 0

I have learnt that I am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because I start 10 minutes before I'm supposed to leave, and that I truly hate airports. Votes: 0

Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control. Votes: 0

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953) Votes: 0

Being with a man incapable of telling a lie "“ a whole lot of awesome. Being with a man who could taste when you lied "“ sucked the big one. Votes: 0

The institution of Masonry ought to be abandoned as one capable of much evil, and incapable of producing any good which might not be affected by safe and open means. Votes: 0

Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding. Votes: 0

I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. Votes: 0

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. Votes: 0

I was just about to begin writing 'Mirror Mirror', within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. Votes: 0

The habit of an opinion often leads to the complete conviction of its truth, it hides the weaker parts of it, and makes us incapable of accepting the proofs against it. Votes: 0

Every argument is incapable of helping unless it is singular and addressed to a single person. Therefore, one who discourses in any other way presumably does so from love of reputation. Votes: 0

Even when the writing seems very frivolous, I'm puritanical. I don't mean my subject matter. It's that I'm almost pathologically incapable of leaving something when I'm not quite happy with it. Votes: 0

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two. Votes: 0

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything. Votes: 0

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no. Votes: 0

The American system itself is incapable. It's, it is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as a, as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg. Votes: 0

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides. Votes: 0

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. Votes: 0

Unfortunately the student often feels guilt for not living the type of life that their Teacher suggested, or they feel that they are intrinsically bad and incapable of leading a higher life. Votes: 0

And it makes you wonder"”how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns? Votes: 0

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. Votes: 0

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence Votes: 0

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are. Votes: 0

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness. Votes: 0

If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered. Votes: 0

What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious. Votes: 0

organizations like the church or General Motors promote a man up and up until he reaches a spot which he is obviously incapable of filling, and there they lay him to rest. Votes: 0

That very breath wherewith they utter their complaints is a blessing and a fundamental one too for if God would withdraw that they were incapable of whatsoever else either have or desire. Votes: 0

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch Votes: 0

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate. Votes: 0

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it. Votes: 0

They don't need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they're trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin Votes: 0

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . . Votes: 0

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you. Votes: 0

In my day we let the wolfswans incapable of birthing our young die. (Markus) Then it's a good thing we're in the twenty-first century and not the Dark Ages, isn't it? (Fang) Votes: 0

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you Votes: 0

If trusting in Christ is the only way to be saved one has to wonder about infants, small children, and those who are child-like who are incapable of exercising faith in Christ. Votes: 0

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience. Votes: 0

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life Votes: 0

I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching -that is really what our enthusiasm for education has come to. Votes: 0

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them. Votes: 0

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so. Votes: 0

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. Votes: 0

Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we are almost incapable of applying the elementary principles of rational thought. Votes: 0

Theism is so confused and the sentences in which "God" appears so incoherent and so incapable of verifiability or falsifiability that to speak of belief or unbelief, faith or unfaith, is logically impossible. Votes: 0

The Democrats are incapable of even being accused of violating political correctness, so they don't even worry about it. The Democrats have really grown accustomed, however, to Republicans not attacking, not criticizing them. Votes: 0

Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival. Votes: 0

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. Votes: 0

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern genetic knowledge to bring into being animals that suffer more. Votes: 0

MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed of words of one syllable . . . Commonly Saxon - that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary sentiments and emotions. Votes: 0

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character. Votes: 0

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. Votes: 0

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of freedom, which is the middle course, or of keeping it. Votes: 0

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world with the world of sensory fact has become insane. Votes: 0

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live... Votes: 0

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns. Votes: 0

Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity. Votes: 0

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations Votes: 0

I have been Europe's last hope. She proved incapable of refashioning herself by means of voluntary reform. She showed herself impervious to charm and persuasion. To take her I had to use violence. (26th February) Votes: 0

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes. Votes: 0

The practice of utter sincerity towards other men would avail to no good end, if they were incapable of practising it towards their own minds. In fact, truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived. Votes: 0

People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done. Votes: 0

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life. Votes: 0

People like Obama think you are incapable of doing anything yourself. Votes: -1

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. Votes: -1