Incapable Quotes

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

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.

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

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

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.

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

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

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.

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.

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

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

America is living through the third economic revolution and our country doesn't really have a plan on how to deal with it, and when it does - like the president sort of outlined when he first got here - we have a Congress who seem incapable of acting on it.

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.

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.

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

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

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

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

When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

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

The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

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.

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.