Incapable Quotes
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But I am afraid that we are beginning to be over-educated; at least everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde -
I'm constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
Damon Galgut
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
G. Edward Griffin -
Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.
Vaclav Havel -
The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.
Abraham Lincoln -
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.
John Milton -
...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction.
Sigmund Freud -
Cats never feel threatened. They are genetically incapable of accepting that anyone could possibly dislike anything as perfect as a cat.
Kathy Young
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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.
Cody Lundin -
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.
William Ernest Henley -
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.
Charles Edison -
I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.
Walter Bonatti -
I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.
Paul Auster -
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
William Faulkner
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One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.
Michael Ende -
I think anybody incapable of changing his mind is crazy.
William S. Burroughs -
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
Mitch Albom -
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Georges Braque -
Let me repeat that: Our civilization is constitutionally incapable of reversing the annihilation of natural capital, or even slowing it down. Get used to that. When we really understand that, the project of reconceiving civilization itself will gain powerful impetus.
Charles Eisenstein