#inability

That was the awakening, really; it dawned on me that this wasn't really very fair on anyone. On her. On me. On Sienna. But I wasn't willing to change anything, either. I was fiercely protective of my friendship with Sienna. I had fought for it, against my true feelings, for years. I had battled so hard to suppress my feelings, and succeeded. I could never let her go. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#long-term-friendship #change

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #husbandry #land #sustainability #art

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ↗

— John Updike

#appeals #become #child #childlike #count

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#covers #even #frustration #fury #guy

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#emotion #inability #restrain #retain #self

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#comes #inability #our #unhappiness

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

— Walter Bagehot

#failings #inability #mankind #quiet #stay

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years. ↗

— Toshihiko Fukui

#banks #central #emphasized #experience #fairly

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

— Blaise Pascal

#comes #evil #human #inability #man

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