#unable

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a living was because I was really not motivated. I had no motivation. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#because #being #failure #had #i

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#day #done #every #every day #harem

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another? ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#body #countless #deaths #find #grain

I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#came #clearly #concerned #experienced #feminist

I have never been afraid to stand up to the leadership on issues where we disagree. If you chose to keep Cambridge Labour, then I can continue to press the Government for the things that matter to you, in a way that members of the opposition are unable to. ↗

— Anne Campbell

#been #cambridge #chose #continue #disagree

This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#although #appeared #avert #could #countenance

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#be original #copy #only #order #original

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#artists #bad #fame #give #intoxication

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop. ↗

— Jack Dee

#fighting #hated #hurting #i #people