#incapable

The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#controlling #incapable #iraq

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#anvil #beats #cast #frame #furnace

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#any #cleverness #decadence #except #incapable

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#born #i #i was born #incapable #instance

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. ↗

— Origen

#being #cannot #change #changed #converted

He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#anger #being #every #feeling #good

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#i #incapable #me #memoir #publisher

The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates. ↗

— Frank Chodorov

#any #because #giving #giving up #incapable

Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#concerns #debate #democrats #elected #fundamental