The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
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
In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability.
Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle?
. . . clear thinking is not the characteristic which distinguishes our literature today. We are more and more caught up by the unintelligible. People like it. This argues an inability to think, or, almost as bad, a disinclination to think.
All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.
There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.
Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.
The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
All it takes to make a difference is the courage to stop proving I was right in being unable to make a difference. . . to stop assigning cause for my inability to the circumstances outside of myself and to be willing to have been that way, and to see that the fear of being a failure is a lot less important than the unique opportunity I have to make a difference.
The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.