Quotes 41 till 59 of 59.
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The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, near-sightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.
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The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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The Seventies theory explosion was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992) -
There are always suicides among people who are unable to say what they mean.
The World According To Garp (2012) -
There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.
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This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it.
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To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
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To the psychotherapist an old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as a young man who is unable to embrace it.
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Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.
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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.
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We could have waited for a donor to appear, but we believe in the spirit of self-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.
On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005 -
What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.
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When feminist discourse is unable to discriminate the drunken fraternity brother from the homicidal maniac, women are in trouble.
Vamps and Tramps (1994) p. 33 -
When food prices surge, poor families suddenly find themselves unable to afford enough nutritious food. If this happens during the first thousand days of a child's life, the damage to his or her body and mind can be permanent.
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When you see a good horseman, you're unable to tell where the instruction is coming from. It's like telepathy.
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Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on the supermarket shelves, are astonished. Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do.
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Defenceless: Unable to attack.
The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
Impartial. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.
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