Top 1200 Unable To Let Go Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

There's a side of me that dislikes feminism. I think we surrendered something and women were unable to reveal any kind of vulnerability.

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

Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.

Someone who cannot stop his outer flow of words will soon be unable to communicate with other human beings at all.

Historians are presumed to be unable to "do psychology," which is "mystical" anyway, so they are forced to accept the most "rational" explanations... "and it is on these that history is built.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The problem is that our inherent ignorance keeps us in samsara and unable to benefit ourselves and others on a really deep level.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

People with low financial literacy standards are often unable to take their ideas and create assets out of them.

The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over.

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

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.

Being unable to cure death, wretchedness, and ignorance, men have decided, in order to be happy, not to think about such things.

Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.

I am unable to eat what I want to and always work hard to maintain my body and looks. I envy other women who have a free lifestyle.

In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major League career.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate.

Congress is unable to do the work of the American people because too many politicians believe that compromise means capitulation.

What we found out with Katrina is that the country is still unable to deal with disaster. God forbid this happens in San Francisco.

Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.

If we fetishize trauma as incommunicable, then survivors are trapped - unable to feel truly known by their nonmilitary friends and family.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.

Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.

Your life is not predestined, as in Calvinist thought, where everything is written down in the book of life long before your birth and is inescapable. There are choices, accidents, hints and wrong paths, and the ego you, or whatever you call yourself, is a factor in all this. But there is still this other factor that keeps calling. At some moment, people turn, in despair or when they are unable to go any longer on a certain route, and this inner voice says, "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you to turn to me for a long time."

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

I am unable to think of any critical, complex human activity that could be safely reduced to a simple summary equation.

He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so sure as dauntless valor.

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded

There are many people who are unable to eat even a single meal in a day and it is our responsibility to help in whatever way we can.

I will never be a skinny waif as I am physically unable to say "no" to free booze and snacks. Oh well.

Panic does not help, even if you are unable to answer. Try to ask questions to the interviewers as well and it should be impressive enough.

I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

Crime takes place in every country. But it becomes abuse when the state is unwilling and unable to protect the life and honour of its citizens.

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it.

The much-lauded parliamentary democracy in India has been unable to protect a genuine democratic set-up in Kashmir.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.

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