Inability Quotes - Page 4

• it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Drinking, Odds, Boredom

  4 Copy quote

• Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.

  Bill Vaughan

  Jesus, Brushes

  4 Copy quote

• Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults.  He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Imperfection, Purpose

  61 Copy quote

• the usual attitude of Christians towards Jews is - I hardly know whether to say more impious or more stupid, when viewed in the light of their professed principles. ... They hardly know Christ was a Jew. And I find men, educated, supposing that Christ spoke Greek. To my feeling, this deadness to the history which has prepared half our world for us, this inability to find interest in any form of life that is not clad in the same coat-tails and flounces as our own, lies very close to the worst kind of irreligion.

  George Eliot

  Christian, Attitude, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest. From the recognition that, like it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every other being on the planet, and that politically, spiritually, in our heart of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable.

  Aurora Levins Morales

  Integrity, Heart, Self

  Aurora Levins Morales (1998). “Medicine Stories: History, Culture, and the Politics of Integrity”, p.125, South End Press

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.

  Bernard Lown

  Real, Men, Essence

  "A Prescription for Hope". The Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1985.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

  Sarah Manguso

  Anxiety, Ongoing, Might

  "Ongoingness: The End of a Diary". Book by Sarah Manguso, March 03, 2015.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever way the wind blows, whichever way the media encourages the people to go, you follow. If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Blow, Thinking, Government

  "Success Stories Lee Kuan Yew". DVD, documentary, 2002.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• High blood pressure, cheeriness at breakfast, a mellowing political philosophy, and an inability to drink more than half a bottle of proof spirits at cocktail time without falling over the fire irons all suggest dark wings hovering overhead and the impending midnight croak of the raven.

  Lucius Beebe

  Philosophy, Fall, Dark

  Lucius Morris Beebe (1966). “The Provocative Pen of Lucius Beebe, Esq”

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

  Blaise Pascal

  Science, People, Rooms

  4 Copy quote

• We are pretty sure that we and our pets share the same reality, until one day we come home to find that our wistful, intelligent friend who reminds us of our better self has decided a good way to spend the day is to open a box of Brillo pads, unravel a few, distribute some throughout the house, and eat or wear all the rest. And we shake our heads in an inability to comprehend what went wrong here.

  Merrill Markoe

  Dog, Home, Intelligent

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

  27 Copy quote

• There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Society, Disability

  73 Copy quote

• What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

  Robert Breault

  Blessing, Thinking

  10 Copy quote

• Only when we try to love God will we see our utter inability to do so. And only when we understand that inability, will we begin to be in awe of His great love toward us.

  Mike Donehey

  Great Love, Trying, God Love

  9 Copy quote

• The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Self, Soul, Negative

  25 Copy quote

• It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.

  Zoë Heller

  Atheist, Imagination, Mind

  15 Copy quote

• I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule, by which they may be exempted from the tyranny of caprice and of chance. They are glad to supply by external authority their own want of constancy and resolution, and court the government of others, when long experience has convinced them of their own inability to govern themselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Order, Discipline

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.422

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt.

  Bill Bartmann

  Self, Doubt, Growth

  48 Copy quote

• Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be

  Og Mandino

  Men, Goal, May

  Og Mandino (1991). “Og Mandino”, Outlet

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

  Nora Volkow

  Essence, Addiction, Drug

  10 Copy quote

• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

  8 Copy quote

• My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

  Francis Chan

  Prayer, Focus, This Generation

  15 Copy quote

• All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Roots, Sorrow

  13 Copy quote

• All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Angel, Posture, Incapacity

  4 Copy quote