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Quotes About Incapable

I think I'm right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag.
~ Jeremy Grantham
Mir Bahadur Alí, lo hemos visto, es incapaz de soslayar la más burda de las tentaciones del arte: la de ser un genio.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
~ Quentin Crisp
These people are old. Men grow old and types of men grow old. And these are very old. All they have left is their religion. That's all they can think about. So they'll be cast aside. They're dead, you see, because they're incapable of rising to the necessity of the historical situation.
~ Ralph Ellison
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST
~ Daniel Klein
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
~ James De Mille
Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.
~ Doris Lessing
Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
~ Agatha Christie
A woman . . . always feels herself complimented by love, though it may be from a man incapable of winning her heart, or perhaps even her esteem.
~ Abel Stevens
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
~ Albert Camus
We are incapable: ever since Eve's crime, we've been born this way - outlaw failures, fucking and sinning with callous abandon as the planet we've been given withers around us.
~ Will Storr
God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be.
~ Oswald Chambers
I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.
~ William H. Wharton
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
~ Jurgen Habermas
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~ George Bernard Shaw
One must allow that a certain amount of carelessness in one's nature often accomplishes what the will is incapable of doing
~ Jane Bowles
Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions.
~ Albert Einstein
I'm plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.
~ Donald Tusk
Tantos libros -pensó-; restos de la inteligencia de un planeta, migajas de mentes fútiles, popurrí de sistemas incapaces de impedir la muerte del hombre.
~ Richard Matheson
Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race is capable of. Continentals
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Walking by faith has more to do with believing in our capable God than trusting in our incapable selves.
~ Women of Faith
For some dark reason you heretics come in droves to this House of God. Its light attracts you, but you are incapable of recognizing that.
~ Javier Sierra
The fact that she had not yet exterminated her mother proved that she was incapable of violence.
~ Elizabeth Peters
De qué serviría dedicarle reproches a una persona incapaz de analizarlos, y más aún con tantos años de retraso?
~ Amelie Nothomb