#unable

Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#consent #done #encourage #end #except

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights. ↗

— April Winchell

#days #eight #had #i #migraine

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence. ↗

— James Wolfe

#chief #dependence #few #france #fresh

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#any #enough #hard #i #into

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#find #many #said #skilled #skilled workers

To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ↗

— Nigel Lawson

#choose #govern #unable

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status. ↗

— Gary Locke

#college #communities #every #get #go

Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#any #drastic #evidence #evolutionary #find

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#equipment #fly #just #lack #moon