#unable

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

Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist. ↗

— Hassan Nasrallah

#area #because #body #coexist #committed

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. ↗

— John Rawls

#constant #finance #function #money #paralyzed

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#could #disgust #hands #his #honor

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

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