Top 756 Incapable Quotes & Sayings

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

I have no memory for things I have learned, nor things I have read, nor things experienced or heard, neither for people nor events; I feel that I have experienced nothing, learned nothing, that I actually know less than the average schoolboy, and that what I do know is superficial, and that every second question is beyond me. I am incapable of thinking deliberately; my thoughts run into a wall. I can grasp the essence of things in isolation, but I am quite incapable of coherent, unbroken thinking. I can't even tell a story properly; in fact, I can scarcely talk.

You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you're incapable of... If you think you're incapable of running a company, make that your aim... Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.

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

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

Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.

The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.

People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.

The encomium of one incapable of flattery is indeed flattering.

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

If I stand alone, It does not mean, I am any less a Human, If my arms do not hold another, It does not mean, They are incapable of holding, If my tongue is silent, And never speaks the words of Love, It does not mean, That it will be mute, When the time comes, That the words can sincerely be spoken. And just because the World, Has not yet introduced, The one that will share my Life, It certainly does not mean, That I am incapable, Of Loving.

People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.

My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification.

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.

The French are simply incapable of telling the truth.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Having money didn't make me less of a socially incapable loser; it just made me a socially incapable loser who wasn't in debt.

Indeed, President Trump has proven himself the professional - the adult in the room as Democrats act like small children, incapable of stepping up to the task at hand and certainly incapable of leading the nation.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, ‘for ever’, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.

I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.

I'm incapable of feeling any joy.

I'm endlessly amazed by what people are capable of, and incapable of.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

We are so attached to the earth, and yet we are incapable of holding onto it.

I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.

Left-wingers are incapable of conspiring because they are all egomaniacs.

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

When you are gentled and quieted in your heart, you are incapable of relating to disappointment, incapable of feeling sorry for your self.

You should sit,” Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. “I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright.” “It makes me incapable of reason.

I'm not incapable of going through things.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Jim had a spirit that was incapable of compromise.

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

Charles was constitutionally incapable of being a constitutional monarch.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By contrast, Labour says, we are also incapable of doing anything about poverty, but would dearly love to do something. If we knew what.

Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it.

I am incapable of mediocrity.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.