#unable

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#animal #away #creatures #discontent #dying

I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. ↗

— Tony Hawk

#i #i am #physically #quit #skating

The unions and the auto companies have been unable to put a deal together that fundamentally restructures the industry. It needs to get done. The only way it's really going to get done is in bankruptcy court. They should have done it six months ago they should do it now. ↗

— Tim Pawlenty

#auto #bankruptcy #been #companies #court

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. ↗

— John Abizaid

#being #business #change #day #door

Aaron Sorkin was completely unable to understand the actual psychology of Mark or of Facebook. He can't conceive of a world where social status or getting laid or, for that matter, doing drugs, is not the most important thing. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#actual #completely #conceive #doing #facebook

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#always #college #educated #go #i

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. ↗

— Larry David

#add #although #army #because #classes

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#immortality #love #love is #loved #unable

The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#average #contribute #details #effect #enjoyable

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#find #fortune #inequality #man #perhaps