Incapable Quotes - Page 17

• Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

  Lauren Kate

  Honesty, Should Have, Guy

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.228, Delacorte Press

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• Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Cutting, People, Ignorant

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.

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• Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what I am presently incapable of understanding.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Understanding, Saying Yes, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.167, A&C Black

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• Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Self, Order

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Hands, Evil

  Charles Dickens (2014). “Hard Times”, p.120, Trajectory Inc

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• Neither said anything while they embraced. Sometimes words didn't go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart's sentiments.

  J.R. Ward

  Heart, Letters, Sometimes

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.1421, Penguin

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• Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

  Anneli Rufus

  Teacher, Islands, Shy

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• I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. I am incapable of determining ultimate worth or worthlessness; I have no judgment about myself and my life. There is nothing I am quite sure about. I have no definite convictions - not about anything, really. I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation or something I do not know.

  Carl Jung

  Foundation, Add, Judgment

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• You should sit,” Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright.” “It makes me incapable of reason.

  Nalini Singh

  Pregnancy, Talking, Four

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.346, Penguin

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• What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all the employees nothing but a bunch of scoundrels, was there not among them one single loyal devoted man who, had he wasted only an hour or so of the firm's time in the morning, was so tormented by conscience as to be driven out of his mind and actually incapable of leaving his bed?

  Franz Kafka

  Morning, Fate, Men

  "The Metamorphosis". Book by Franz Kafka, 1915.

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• The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Tired, Simple, I Love Myself

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.434, Random House

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• She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

  William Faulkner

  Spite

  William Faulkner “The Sound and the Fury”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• Monty Python is like catnip for nerds. Once you get them started quoting it, they are constitutionally incapable of feeling depressed.

  Kevin Hearne

  Python, Feelings, Nerd

  Kevin Hearne (2011). “Hounded (with two bonus short stories): The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book One”, p.179, Del Rey

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• Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their suffering is like our own – then ethical reasoning would lead nowhere. If emotion without reason is blind, then reason without emotion is impotent.

  Peter Singer

  Empathy, Suffering, Emotion

  "Writings on an Ethical Life". Book by Peter Singer, November 21, 2000.

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• She was incapable of love for any object not of her own choice and she resented anyone's demand for it.

  Ayn Rand

  Choices, Demand, Objects

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.997, Penguin

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• They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

  J. K. Rowling

  Wall, Mad, Water

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• To make someone an icon is to make him an abstraction, and abstractions are incapable of vital communication with living people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Communication, Icons, People

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

  Pope Francis

  Responsibility, Challenges, Culture

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Earthly Existence”, p.20, Random House

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• Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of strategems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

  Peter Greenaway

  Trying, Use, Chaos

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

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

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Knowledge, Speak English, Internet Users

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

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• Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is.

  Nicola Cabibbo

  Purpose, Answers, Ultimate Questions

  Interview with Professor Nicola Cabibbo by John L. Allen, Jr., www.natcath.org. July 18, 2005.

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• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Esteem, Believe, Emotional

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