The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.
Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition.
The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Asceticism and celibacy can conceal many incapacities.
Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
This account of him [Thomas More] developed as I wrote: what first attracted me was a person who could not be accused of any incapacity for life, who indeed seized life in great variety and almost greedy quantities, who nevertheless found something in himself without which life was valueless and when that was denied him was able to grasp his death.
The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
The price of training is always a certain trained incapacity: the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.
ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
