Quotes About Inability

I can't do that, Harry said. I don't have the math for it.

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. I'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain. . . . If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no one else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.

Don't be ridiculous! You waste less time than anyone I know.' 'You don't know, sweetie. For years I've had down days. Days I just can't cope. Can't get on with anything. Can't get up and out or at it or whatever.' 'Not enough to keep you from being invaluable politically.

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

Sunt ca un Dumnezeu care nu mai poate învia

Quisiera sentir lastima hacia el, pero no puedo

Is it possible that what we perceive to be relational, emotional, and spiritual problems are actually hearing problems -- ears that have been deafened to the voice of God? And it's that inability to hear His voice that causes us to lose our voice and lose our way.

Couldn't get that idiot to make a decision if you begged him. Notice how he makes that ehh sound when he has to think? He couldn't lead a pack of Cub Scouts to the rest room.

I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

The French have a penchant for absolutism, for thinking that things are all one way or all another, which is why their politics are marked by a general inability to compromise and why they tend to hold their personal opinions until the bitter end, even after they have clearly lost an argument.

Der freie Wille sei zu nichts fähig außer zum Sündigen.

Therefore the Law finds man not only unwilling but also unable to do what the Law demands. Thus he says here in the text that on the day of the assembly the people refused and could not hear the voice of the Law, and that therefore they asked for another teacher, one who would speak to them a word they could bear.

The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love.

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love

I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

Bob's talent, such as it is, consists entirely of the few unconscious charms of youth: its energy, audacity and complete inability to recognize its own shortcomings.

So far beyond rational thought is your attitude, that nothing I can say will change it. A lifetime of reasoning with you would not alter your amazing inability to comprehend reality.

This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to live will by necessity far exceed the skill of ordinary men, who are as much tempted by the desire to be honest as they are plagued by guilt and shame when they have broken faith.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." —H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu

So clear was his inability to take any criticism or to participate in any honest argument about policy that the attempt was almost never made.

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.

I don't have empathy, Sahara. I can't feel for those who are going to die. It would be akin to asking a falcon to take flight when his wings had long been hacked off.