Incapable Quotes

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.

In the long run [censorship] will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Any preacher who preaches beyond that which he has experienced is incapable of preaching with conviction.

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.

I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.

Someone who is incapable of drawing, and cannot master line or colour perspective can always express themselves in some form of abstraction.

There is nothing more pitiful than a ready and willing mind but an incapable body.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

University degrees are a bit like adultery: You may not want to get involved with that sort of thing, but you don't want to be thought incapable.

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

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.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

Of course, there [in China] has to be chaos. It has to be crazy, and I don't think there's anything wrong about it except this government, which is really incapable of doing anything meaningful.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.

In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration.

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

This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie.

I think Donald Trump is simply incapable of sticking to a single message. Or of understanding that he doesn't know better than everyone else in every circumstance.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.