Inability Quotes

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi.

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

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

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me.