Inability Quotes

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.

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia.

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

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.

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

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.

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

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee.

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

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

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.

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

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger.

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.

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