Quotes About Inability

People can be very motivated to become very control experts because an inability to predict behavior is absolutely intolerable for human beings and every other social animal. The fact that most people act predictably is literally is what holds human societies together.

But the Law is the prelude to the Gospel. Those broken by the Law are convinced of their need and of their inability to save themselves. Then the message that God does it all comes as an astounding relief, as good news. Those who despair of achieving perfection by themselves can hear the message of the cross—that they can find totally free forgiveness through the work of Jesus Christ—and cling to it, desperately, with every fiber of their being.

You're such an agonizer, Bradley. You romanticize art. You're a masochist about it, you want to suffer, you want to feel that your inability to create is continuously significant.

For years he had been incapable of tears.

Vincent did not know how to express his feelings in words. He knew how to paint them. However, one cannot paint the farewell.

Gewalt ist die letzte Zuflucht des Unfähigen.

Now a human caught in an impossibility often responds by a retreat from reality: by entry into a world of delusion, or by taking to drink, going of into hysteria, or jumping off a bridge. It all comes to the same thing-a refusal or inability to face the situation squarely.

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy, and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

I can't hold a tune at all.

Trump's inability to face the truth of his loss to Biden might explain why he has barely faced reporters at all in the closing weeks of his presidency. Even more remarkably, he rarely ever called into his favorite TV shows.

Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to.

inability to decipher words came from neglect, but Eve knew better.

Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write.

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

This simple inability to remember not the true sequence of events but a reconstructed one will make history appear in hindsight to be far more explainable than it actually was—or is.

Once again we note that poor self-esteem can show up as lack of generosity toward the contributions of others or a tendency to fear their ability—and, in the case of a leader or manager, an inability to elicit their best from people.

What a weary time those years were—to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

Que tempos penosos foram aqueles anos - ter o desejo e a necessidade de viver, mas não a habilidade.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

The Soviet failure revealed itself much more gradually: it was a pathological inability to experiment. The

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it.

It was realism that told Kelly he couldn't fix all the problems of the world; it was idealism that told him his inability to do so did not preclude him from addressing individual imperfections.

Their failure is just another expression of their helplessness

Could it be that the great Bonaparte is incapable of fathering a child? that it is not I who am at fault but you?