“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”
- Nigel Lawson- Copy
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“ We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone — its value is incontestable. ”
- Joyce Carol Oates- Copy
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“ The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ”
- Cyril Connolly- Copy
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“ The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. ”
- Le Corbusier- Copy
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“ Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. ”
- Joseph Addison- Copy
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“ Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it. ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow. ”
- Paul Ehrlich- Copy
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“ When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. ”
- Baltasar Gracian- Copy
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“ Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ”
- P.G. Wodehouse- Copy
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“ At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ”
- Moo hyum Roh- Copy
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“ The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ”
- Anais Nin- Copy
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“ Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ”
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan- Copy
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“ I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ”
- Hayao Miyazaki- Copy
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“ Now that I'm married and thinking of having a family, my greatest fear is being unable to defend my loved ones. ”
- David Duchovny- Copy
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“ Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. ”
- Jimmy Breslin- Copy
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“ I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Probable-Possible, my black hen, She lays eggs in the Relative When. She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now Because she's unable to postulate how. ”
- Frederick Winsor- Copy
- 3K
“ A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. ”
- Marianne Moore- Copy
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“ A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd. ”
- Rene Char- Copy
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“ 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. ”
- Brendan Behan- Copy
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“ It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
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