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Inability Quotes

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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better
Daniel Berrigan

Authors on Inability Quotes: Blaise Pascal Nassim Nicholas Taleb John C. Maxwell Alan Watts Cleveland Amory David Platt Napoleon Bonaparte Friedrich Nietzsche Woody Harrelson Carl Sagan Epictetus Wangari Maathai Francis Chan Michael Steinhardt Paloma Faith Bill Watterson Ron Smothermon Johnny Hunt Denis de Rougemont Thomas Paine Kent Beck Georges Seurat Edward James Olmos Ashraf Dehghani Kim Stanley Robinson Chuck Todd Robert H. Schuller David Levithan Samuel Johnson Umberto Eco Nick Vujicic Kirsten Powers Phil Donahue
2.
When we can’t marry the person we had in mind, our inability to look beyond may even blind sight us from someone who is in fact better for us. When we don’t get hired, or we lose something dear to us, it’s hard to take a step back and notice the bigger picture. Often Allah takes things away from us, only to replace them with something greater.
Yasmin Mogahed

3.
Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something.
Cory Booker

4.
I have discovered few learning disabled students in my three decades of teaching. I have, however, discovered many, many victims of teaching inabilities.
Marva Collins

5.
There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more.
Robert M. Hensel

6.
When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.
Nick Vujicic

7.
Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.
Holger Czukay

8.
Remember God is not surprised by your inabilities, your imperfections, or your faults. He has always known everything about you that you are just now finding out, and he chose you on purpose for himself.
Joyce Meyer

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The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
Albert Allen Bartlett

10.
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.
Jean Baudrillard

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It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should, with the consent of the creditors, be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of the nation to a level with its income. Till this shall be accomplished, the finances of the United States will never wear a proper countenance. Arrears of interest, continually accruing, will be as continual a monument, either of inability, or of ill faith and will not cease to have an evil influence on public credit.
Alexander Hamilton

12.
Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.
Sarah Silverman

13.
Your defeat is not only a reality, which has been historically proven time and again. It can also be seen in your helplessness and your inability to suppress the movement, in your desperate conduct when faced with our guerrillas and the vanguard of the people.
Ashraf Dehghani

14.
The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.
Kent Beck

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

16.
Disability is the inability to see ability.
Vikas Khanna

17.
The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself.
Ralph Smart

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The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.
Orrin Woodward

19.
I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.
Ai Yazawa

20.
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema.
Joe Wright

21.
The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless
Georges Seurat

22.
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
Wei Wu Wei

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Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.
Charles Bukowski

24.
Our real illiteracy is our inability to create
Friedensreich Hundertwasser

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound

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Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.
George F. Kennan

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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
Bill Watterson

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The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around.
Matthew Ashimolowo

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Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia
Edward James Olmos

30.
When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.
John R. Rice

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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh

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All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

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The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.
Robert H. Schuller

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What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
John Stuart Mill

35.
What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
Alan Watts

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The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
Edward Teller

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I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.
Jim Cymbala

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There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.
Octavian Paler

39.
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia
Hideki Tojo

40.
Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification.
Mike Murdock

41.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Blaise Pascal

42.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

43.
One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.
Robert Kiyosaki

44.
To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

45.
The more I study the world,
the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
Napoleon Bonaparte

46.
Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.
Bette Davis

47.
We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.
Angelina Jolie

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I do not concern myself with my inability to feel such comfort amidst humans (other than with very few friends and family), but, rather, am simply thankful that at least dogs exist, and I’m humbly aware of how much less a person I’d be – how less a human – if they did not exist.
Rick Bass

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Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.
Simon Schama

50.
Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul David Tripp