(158 quotes found)
“Merely through the constant need to ward off, one can become weak enough to be unable to defend oneself any longer.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.”
Anais Nin
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,Making both it unable for itself,And dispossessing all my other partsOf necessary fitness?”
William Shakespeare
“The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.”
Cyril Connolly
“I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.”
Charles Baudelaire
“What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.”
G. K. Chesterton
“We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone - its value is incontestable”
Joyce Carol Oates
“I won't quit skating until I am physically unable.”
Tony Hawk
“Some things you must always be unable to bear.”
William Faulkner
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