#inability

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. ↗

— Paul Getty

#industries #notorious #operate #profit #their

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

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

— Ezra Pound

#curse #earlier #illiteracy #in print #inability

If you ask my wife, the biggest fault is my inability around the house. She says the only thing handy about me is that I'm close by. And, I have a terrible memory. I'm bad at saying no. I often double-book. There are a lot of things. ↗

— Hugh Jackman

#around #ask #bad #biggest #close

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#communication #confidence #error #establish #i

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. ↗

— Bobby Scott

#college #college education #denied #earning #education

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

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Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves. ↗

— William Temple

#arrows #back #believe #between #complaints

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#inability #neurosis #tolerate

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#defy #first #forces #least #natural