Incapable Quotes - Page 26

• Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.

  Herbert Stein

  Agency, Government, Decision

  1979 Washington Bedtime Stories.

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• Even when we allow our imaginations to run wild on the joys of heaven, we find that our minds are incapable of conceiving what it will be like.

  Billy Graham

  Running, Imagination, Joy

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns; for, ion ceasing to be numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life. Since he is gone where he feels no pain, let us not indulge in too much grief. The soul is incapable of death. And he, like a bird not long enough in his cage to become attached to it, is free to fly away to a purer air. . . . Since we cherish a trust like this, let our outward actions be in accord with it, and let us keep our hearts pure and our minds calm.

  Plutarch

  Life, Pain, Grief

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• Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own.

  Pope Francis

  Pain, Responsibility, Compassion

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby

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• The word 'innocence' means 'incapable of being hurt'. To have a mind that is not capable of being hurt, does not mean that it has built up a lot of resistance - on the contrary, such a mind is dying to everything that it has known in which there has been conflict, pleasure and pain. Only then is the mind innocent; that means it can love. You cannot love with memory, love is not a matter of remembrance, of time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Pain, Memories

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• And it makes you wonder—how can a people incapable of selecting their own lightbulbs and toilets possess enough competence to vote for their own rulers and fill out complicated tax returns?

  Mark Levin

  People, Toilets, Return

  Mark R. Levin (2013). “The Liberty Amendments”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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