Quotes about Inability

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Votes: 4

Depression is the inability to construct a future. Votes: 4

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. Votes: 4

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. Votes: 4

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room. Votes: 4

Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command. Votes: 4

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Votes: 4

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Votes: 4

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. Votes: 4

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure. Votes: 4

Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art. Votes: 3

Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth. Votes: 3

Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Votes: 3

Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Votes: 3

Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. Votes: 3

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance. Votes: 3

We're not that strong anymore. (Hades) Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family. So much for my father being a god of prophecy, huh? (Stryker) Votes: 3

Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is "clever" and "earnest," hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully "narrow and uncharitable" if you hint that he is unsound! Votes: 3

Disability is the inability to see ability. Votes: 2

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind. Votes: 2

The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible. Votes: 2

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street. Votes: 2

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem. Votes: 2

The real mistake humans have committed lays in the inability to differentiate between requirements and luxuries. Votes: 2

The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels. Votes: 2

Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example. Votes: 2

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs. Votes: 2

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Votes: 2

Today, many companies are reporting that their number one constraint on growth is the inability to hire workers with the necessary skills. Votes: 2

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia Votes: 2

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to. Votes: 2

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. Votes: 2

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. Votes: 2

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems. Votes: 2

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders Votes: 2

No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders. Votes: 2

Boys with a 'failure to launch' are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. Votes: 2

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting. Votes: 2

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia Votes: 2

The scenarios of biological or chemical warfare painted in detail by the American media during the months after September 11 only betray the inability of the government to determine the magnitude of the danger. Votes: 2

The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives. Votes: 2

Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world. Votes: 2

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do. Votes: 2

Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life. Votes: 2

What merit there is in my thinking is derived from two peculiarities: (1) My inability to be familiar with anything. I simply can't take things for granted. (2) My endless patience. I assume that the only way to find an answer is to hang on long enough and keep groping. Votes: 2

As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. Votes: 2

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few. Votes: 2

We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true. Votes: 2

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck. Votes: 2

His death certificate says he died first of pneumonia and secondly of Alzheimer's disease. They could have listed another cause of death: a refusal to properly care for dementia sufferers, even when they are violent, and an equal inability to care for their carers. My dad died of dementia, but also because dying was the easiest way to treat him. Votes: 2

Hell is the inability to love. Votes: 0

I just have an inability to lie. Votes: 0

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create Votes: 0

Immaturity is the inability to delay self gratification. Votes: 0

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything. Votes: 0

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously. Votes: 0

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself. Votes: 0

The #1 reasons are unsuccessful is their inability to lead themselves. Votes: 0

Stress is the inability to adapt to a changing environment. Votes: 0

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue. Votes: 0

Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much. Votes: 0

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves Votes: 0

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still. Votes: 0

I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important. Votes: 0

Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive. Votes: 0

The inability to lie is far from the love of truth. Votes: 0

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. Votes: 0

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious. Votes: 0

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. Votes: 0

The main cause of failure is the inability to deal with self-doubt. Votes: 0

There is only one fault, only one: our inability to feed upon light. Votes: 0

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths. Votes: 0

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone. Votes: 0

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present Votes: 0

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly. Votes: 0

The inability of some critics to connect the dots doesn't make pointillism pointless Votes: 0

God does not ask your abilityOr your inability.He asks only your availability. Votes: 0

All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for the inability to notice. Votes: 0

Don't let your inability to do everything undermine your determination to do something. Votes: 0

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember. Votes: 0

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively. Votes: 0

One of my biggest problems in life has been my inability to lie. Votes: 0

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history Votes: 0

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer. Votes: 0

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point. Votes: 0

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency. Votes: 0

A running theme in my life is my inability to say no to anything. Votes: 0

In direct contradiciton to the American dream, God actually delights in exalting our inability. Votes: 0

that's what I love you for: your inability to perceive all my hideous flaws Votes: 0

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help. Votes: 0

A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide. Votes: 0

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. Votes: 0

Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste. Votes: 0

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. Votes: 0

Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be Votes: 0

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Votes: 0

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself. Votes: 0

Censorship that comes from the outside assumes about people an inability to make reasoned choices. Votes: 0

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. Votes: 0

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself. Votes: 0

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly. Votes: 0

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse. Votes: 0

There is no greater disability in society, than the inability to see a person as more. Votes: 0

The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. Votes: 0

The inability to grasp the pathology* of our oligarchic rulers is one of our gravest faults. Votes: 0

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious. Votes: 0

Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success Votes: 0

Our lack of compassion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things. Votes: 0

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life. Votes: 0

Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment. Votes: 0

The greatest illiterate is the inability to learn the great things of life from small things around. Votes: 0

What best defines a child is the total inability to receive information from anything not plugged in. Votes: 0

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Votes: 0

This inability to engage in debate or handle disagreement is becoming the calling card of the left. Votes: 0

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships. Votes: 0

The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself. Votes: 0

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. Votes: 0

[One's] inability to invalidate your hypothesis is not at all the same thing as proving it true. Votes: 0

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ... Votes: 0

The man who invented instant pudding was moved to action by an inability to wait for pudding. Votes: 0

God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him. Votes: 0

The sum of a man's problems come from his inability to be alone in a silent room. Votes: 0

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. Votes: 0

This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees. Votes: 0

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. Votes: 0

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge. Votes: 0

Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel. Votes: 0

Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses. Votes: 0

I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place. Votes: 0

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. Votes: 0

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing. Votes: 0

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms. Votes: 0

Individual and institutional investors alike frequently demonstrate an inability to make long-term investment decisions based on business fundamentals. Votes: 0

Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. Votes: 0

The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all. Votes: 0

Your inability to see other possibilities and your lack of vocabulary are your brain's limits, not the universe's. Votes: 0

There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief. Votes: 0

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. Votes: 0

The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work. Votes: 0

No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful. Votes: 0

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. Votes: 0

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room. Votes: 0

My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer. Votes: 0

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams. Votes: 0

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress. Votes: 0

Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect: It tends to create the inability to accept new ideas. Votes: 0

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them. Votes: 0

I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things. Votes: 0

The inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is something that weighs heavily on my mind. Votes: 0

To believe that the United States is post-racial requires an almost incomprehensible inability or unwillingness to stare truth in the face. Votes: 0

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. Votes: 0

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water. Votes: 0

The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. Votes: 0

Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice. Votes: 0

The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change. Votes: 0

The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. Votes: 0

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches. Votes: 0

The author says the mark of a true rest your creature is an inability to be still without a kind of resignation. Votes: 0

An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. Votes: 0

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. Votes: 0

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. Votes: 0

It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer. Votes: 0

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia. Votes: 0

Your inability to do what you are noted for doing is a critical step to wading off your past glories of excellence! Votes: 0

We are more likely to fail as craftsmen due to our inability to organize obsession than because of our lack of ability. Votes: 0

Thirty thousand a year was all right, but dyspepsia and inability to be humanly happy robbed such princely income of all its value. Votes: 0

B*tch: a reflection of people’s lack of creativity & inability to acknowledge & embrace a powerful woman; a woman who won’t comply. Votes: 0

As long as there are human beings, there will be the idea of brotherhood -- and an almost total inability to practice it. Votes: 0

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk. Votes: 0

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace. Votes: 0

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess. Votes: 0

To succeed in life requires a total inability to do anything that makes you uncomfortable when you look at yourself in the mirror. Votes: 0

At the heart of the failure of most plays is the inability to carry on a thoughtful conversation about your work with yourself. Votes: 0

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives. Votes: 0

There are no philosophical problems, there is only a suite of interconnected linguistic cul de sacs created by language's inability to reflect the truth. Votes: 0

The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love. Votes: 0

My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune. Votes: 0

Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It's the inability to relate to another human being. It's the inability to love. Votes: 0

Your inability to see the wisdom in someone else is not a reflection on their lack of perspicacity, it is a reflection on yours. Votes: 0

Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task. Votes: 0

I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any more bearable. Votes: 0

Every form of causeless self-doubt, every feeling of inferiority and secret unworthiness is, in fact, man's hidden dread of his inability to deal with existence. Votes: 0

There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals. Votes: 0

A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility. Votes: 0

What are the physical sensations you associate with hunger? For most people, these sensations include stomach grumbling, headaches, light-headedness, irritability, fatigue and inability to focus. Votes: 0

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him. Votes: 0

...inability to lie is still far from being love to truth. Be on your guard! ... He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is. Votes: 0

He's seeing my soul, my fears, my fragility, my inability to deal with a world which i pretend to master, but about which I know nothing Votes: 0

There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it. Votes: 0

Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by two main components: an inability to interact socially with other people with joint attention to understand other people's thoughts. Votes: 0

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose. Votes: 0

Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three. Votes: 0

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment. Votes: 0

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language. Votes: 0

Hating' is displaced admiration; a by-product of low emotional intelligence. It originates from the hater's inability to affirm, in your life, the non-manifest desires of their own. Votes: 0

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply. Votes: 0

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability. Votes: 0

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you Votes: 0

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Votes: 0

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind. Votes: 0

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution. Votes: 0

The ability for a person to operate satisfactorily in a thing is dependent on how much he knows about that thing. Ignorance is a major cause of inability. Votes: 0

Self distrust is good, but only if it leads to trust in God. Otherwise it ends as spiritual paralysis, inability and unwillingness to undertake any course of action. Votes: 0

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing. Votes: 0

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again... Votes: 0

We must never shed tears That is the life form's defeat and if we give into the emotions then it only becomes proof of our inability to control it. Votes: 0

Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress. Votes: 0

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good. Votes: 0

Every day you preach to yourself a gospel of your loneliness, inability, and lack of resources or you faithfully preach to yourself the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

The nation should be able to remove by an orderly constitutional process any president with an unyielding commitment to failed policies and an inability to renew the country's hope. Votes: 0

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. Votes: 0

If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied. Votes: 0

Even when we are frustrated by our inability to understand a circumstance or event, there are unseen angels bringing comfort and protection as directed by the wisdom of God. Votes: 0

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost. Votes: 0

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn't define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone's inability to appreciate your unique beauty. Votes: 0

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.) Votes: 0

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference. Votes: 0

We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth. Votes: 0

Spirituality is rooted in desire. We long for something we can neither name nor describe, but which is no less real because of our inability to capture it with words. Votes: 0

I'm a comic because I don't want to do the nine-to-five, I have to modify that and say I'm a comic because I have an inability to do a nine-to-five. Votes: 0

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you. Votes: 0

To be happy, one only must be able to confront, which is to say, experience, those things that are. Unhappiness is only this the inability to confront that which is. Votes: 0

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being. Votes: 0

Immaturity means self-centeredness, inability to compromise, to rise above hurt feelings, to postpone immediate pleasures in favor of future benefits, or to do unpleasant chores when they need to be done. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business. Votes: 0

The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear . . . Votes: 0

If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership. Votes: 0

Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process. Votes: 0

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success Votes: 0

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks. Votes: 0

I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.' Votes: 0

While I remain troubled by the Corps' inability to fully justify the Model they used for their commercial traffic predictions, America clearly has an aging lock and dam infrastructure on the Mississippi. Votes: 0

Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand, let alone follow, even the simplest and most explicit of directions. Votes: 0

Boys with a failure to launch are invisible to most girls. With poor social skills, the boys feel anger at their fear of being rejected and self-loathing at their inability to compete. Votes: 0

I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Votes: 0

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense. Votes: 0

I think it's too late. I think that there's been too much. This all started with the red line, walking away from it. The inability to arm the legitimate [Bashar] Assad opposition. Votes: 0

Disempowerment - whether defined in terms of a lack of self-confidence , apathy, fear, or an inability to take charge of one's own life - is perhaps the most unrecognised problem in Africa today. Votes: 0

I don't think Harry cares about being forgiven," Poppy said glumly. "Of course he does. Men love to be forgiven. It makes us feel better about our inability to learn from our mistakes. Votes: 0

It's a strange truth that no matter how persuaded we might be of our own correctness, the discomfiting realization that others disagree with us causes a paralyzing inability to argue the case convincingly. Votes: 0

A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero. Votes: 0

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don't think the press has understood me. Votes: 0

I have little doubt that the single greatest obstacle to the impact of the gospel has not been its inability to provide answers, but the failure on our part to live it out. Votes: 0

The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia. Votes: 0

This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics. Votes: 0

Humans have trouble with economics, as you may have noticed, and not just because economic circumstances sometimes cause them to starve. Humans seem to have an innate inability to pay attention to economic principles. Votes: 0

Autism is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterized by social withdrawal, by repetitive behaviors and by some kind of focal attention in its classic form. Basically, it's an inability to relate to others. Votes: 0

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone. Votes: 0

There is a central flaw in contemporary culture and a corresponding and related inability to address it. Society seems somehow unable to adequately help or protect itself. Normal citizens feel powerless, isolated and disturbed. Votes: 0

There was something about total loyalty, uncritical devotion, endless patience, perpetual forgiveness and the general inability to believe that a loved one could ever do anything wrong that, frankly, just gave him the creeps. Votes: 0

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of. Votes: 0

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities. Votes: 0

We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent. Votes: 0

It pleases our heavenly Father when we acknowledge and confess to Him our inability to run our own lives. That is what we are doing when we say, "Father, help me! I need You!" Votes: 0

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery. Votes: 0

The New York Times and Politico report , as Bush continues to flounder on the campaign trail, backers are placing some of the blame on Right To Rise and its inability to sell their candidate. Votes: 0

It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery. Votes: 0

If I had to define a major depression in a single sentence, I would describe it as a "genetic/neurochemical disorder requiring a strong environmental trigger whose characteristic manifestation is an inability to appreciate sunsets. Votes: 0

Consider this:1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?And here's a bonus question:2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle? Votes: 0

Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face. Votes: 0

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty. Votes: 0

If only [people] understood that every thought is both false and true! False by one-sidenedness resulting from man's inability to embrace the whole truth, and true as an expression of one fact of human endeavor. Votes: 0

Most Americans are unaware that Thomas Jefferson was the first American president to go to war against radical Islam. Jefferson was very concerned with Islam's war-like doctrine and its inability to separate mosque and state. Votes: 0

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself. Votes: 0

The gradual decline of a society is often a self-induced process of trying to meet ever-expanding appetites, rather than a physical inability to produce past levels of food and fuel, or to maintain adequate defense. Votes: 0

The trouble of the modern age is not merely the inability to believe certain things about God and man which our forefathers believed, but the inability to feel towards God and man as they did. Votes: 0

The biggest fragility in a project is often just the inability to be able to explain to people why you are doing it, and when you're going to do it, and what's going to happen. Votes: 0

Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble. Votes: 0