Inability Quotes

• It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality

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

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Evil, Rooms

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• Depression is the inability to construct a future.

  Rollo May

  Sad, Depression, Depressing

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May, ch. 9, 1969.

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• 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

  Hideki Tojo

  Japan, America, Prejudice

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• Disability is the inability to see ability.

  Vikas Khanna

  Disability, Ability

  Twitter post from May 28, 2012

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• Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Good Life, Men, Evil

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

  Sigmund Freud

  Creativity, Ideas, Innovation

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Walter Bagehot

  Music, Communication, Silence

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

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Soul, Tears

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• Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills.

  William J. Clinton

  Success, Business, Knowledge

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2214, Best Books on

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• Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.

  Ashraf Dehghani

  Reality, People, Movement

  "Torture & Resistance in Iran: Memoirs of the Woman Guerrilla Ashraf Dehghani". Book by Ashraf Dihqani, 1978.

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

  Edward James Olmos

  Important, Bosnia, Situation

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• Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

  James Thurber

  Sad, Death, Desire

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• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• 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.

  John Updike

  Children, Dirty, Golf

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.148, Random House

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• When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

  Nick Vujicic

  Inspirational, Miracle, Stills

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• Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.

  Paul Getty

  Economy, Notorious, Profit

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

  Edie Brickell

  Thinking, Problem, Think Big

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• 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

  Ida B. Wells

  Women, Lynching, America

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• 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.

  Bradley Whitford

  Frustration, Interesting, Guy

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

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

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• There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Worry, Soul, Doe

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• What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping.

  Eric Hoffer

  Thinking, Two, Long

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in "Harper's Magazine", Entry (1951), July 2005.

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• All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Music, Truth

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