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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality. -- Emily Dickinson
Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure. -- Edward Conze
Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs -- J. R. Ackerley
Unable to understand why you think so, when you chose a different path. -- Sujata Mondal
Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just. -- Blaise Pascal
Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage. -- Charles Baudelaire
Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. -- Charles Baudelaire
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst. -- Bernard Beckett
Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. -- Sylvia Plath
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity - Unable they that love - to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity. -- Emily Dickinson
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.From within, I couldn't decide what to do.Unable to see, I heard my name being called.Then I walked outside. -- Rumi
The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered. -- Jan Peacock
We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to step out into the sky Like that fearless flower --Sosuke Aizen,Flower on the Precipice -- Tite Kubo
In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend themselves, were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original. -- Jean Cocteau
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. -- Andrew Carnegie
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. -- Nigel Lawson
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated. -- Joe Wurzelbacher
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. -- Anais Nin
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
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture. -- Benjamin E. Mays
I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause. -- Edward Said
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. -- Chetan Bhagat
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. -- Sloane Crosley
Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will. -- Pema Chodron
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
It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being. -- Gottfried Leibniz
I have rituals for cleaning out resentments, disappointments, heartbreak, depression and for work. One of the things I do is go over old stuff if I have been unable to write for a while. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. -- Jim Carrey
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold. -- Jose Rizal
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
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well. -- Henry Rollins
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty. -- Alan Alda
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. -- Elyn Saks
Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. -- Chief Seattle
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If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot. -- Alice Oswald
In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but had lost so much that they were unable to claim any sort of identity. Others I met found who they truly were, and they generally found it through service to others. They became teachers when there was no school, books or pencils. -- Deborah Ellis
I am unable to rule anything out, -- Toni Kroos
Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war. -- David Lloyd George
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. -- Tony Hawk
Hell is the suffering of being unable to love. -- J. D. Salinger
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength. -- Blaise Pascal
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. -- Daniel Handler
If Heaven and Earth are unable to persist, how could man? -- Laozi
To be unable to read was the ultimate measure of wretchedness. -- David McCullough
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable. -- Robert Smith Surtees
Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it. -- Daniel Handler
It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change. -- Angela Merkel
A movie that is unable to elicit emotion isn't a movie. -- Xavier Dolan
Pity is the feeling of well-intentioned people who are unable to act. -- Pramoedya Ananta Toer
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate. -- William Golding
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results. -- Calvin Coolidge
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. -- Suzanne Farrell
Progressive. n. One who is unable to distinguish between novelty and enlightenment. -- Ron Brackin
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay. -- Publilius Syrus
I, personally, am unable to accept any revealed religion, Christian or not. -- Bronislaw Malinowski
It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. -- Seneca the Younger
Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace. -- Scipio Africanus
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. -- Plato
My mind is very clear, but my heart is unable to understand. -- Kim A-joong
What do we know to be important but are unable to measure? -- Marcus Buckingham
If you are unable to compete with the pious in their good -- Ibn Rajab
One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly. -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin. -- Ambrose
The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border. -- Lucy Powell
To be unable to bear an ill is itself a great ill. -- Wilfred Bion
To be enlightened doesn't mean you end up stupefied and unable to function. -- Tenzin Palmo
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop. -- Jack Dee
States are doomed when they are unable to distinguish good men from bad. -- Antisthenes
Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers. -- Dennis Hastert
I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it. -- Sylvia Plath
That's Joe Biden right there - unbowed, unbroken and unable to stop talking. -- John McCain
I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret. -- Ben Macintyre
I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone. -- Haruki Murakami
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean. -- John Irving
When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving. -- Paulo Coelho
Most people, solidly frozen into long-held, common notions, are unable to grasp clearer views. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets. -- Gian-Carlo Rota
There may be said to be three sorts of lawyers, able, unable, and lamentable. -- Robert Smith
Minds like beds always made up (more stony than a shore) unwilling or unable. -- William Carlos Williams
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. -- Seneca the Younger
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. -- Marya Hornbacher
You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do. -- Henry Cloud
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? -- Andre Gide
If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell. -- Virgil
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. -- Seneca the Younger
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them -- Voltaire
The greatest source of discouragement is the conviction that one is unable to do something -- Maria Montessori
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. -- Andre Gide
If we haven't a grouch against Fortune, we seem unable to avoid one against ourselves. -- Winifred Holtby
They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist. -- Garth Brooks
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. -- George Bernard Shaw
A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man. -- Paul Gauguin
I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing. -- Lisa Nicole Carson
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. -- Jessye Norman
Security is the slogan for people who feel unable to function by their own means. -- Zygmunt Bauman
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. -- Marianne Moore
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis. -- Charles Duhigg
I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold, -- Andrew Sullivan
Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance. -- Mitt Romney
Your car goes where your eyes go. Lonliness is unable to survive without a willing host. -- Garth Stein
Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear. -- John Maeda
I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The problem is authority. But these Vatican officials seem unable to understand authority except as authoritarianism -- David Tracy
Most people are blinded by faith leaving them unable to see the truth that is science. -- Harry Gordon Johnson
But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either. -- Lu Xun
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior -- Marilyn French
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry. -- Scott Westerfeld
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan
Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia. -- Dionysius Lardner

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