I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion.
After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.
A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive.
No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
I may have a talent for acting, but I am incapable of doing anything else.
Writing is writing to me. I’m incapable of saying no to any writing job, so I’ve done everything – historical fiction, myths, fairy tales, anything that anybody expresses any interest in me writing, I’ll write. It’s the same reason I used to read as a child: I like going somewhere else and being someone else.
I’m actually incapable of lying. I’m like a parody of a person who can’t lie.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
I’m not incapable of going through things.
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles; elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.
The truth is that I’m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?
Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him.
I don’t want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren’t perfect, it leaves scars.
I had lots of trouble in school as a child, and I lost confidence. Teachers thought I was stupid. I learned to read very late, when I was 11. Dyslexia wasn’t recognized then, and the assumption was you were incapable of thinking.
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.
We are incapable of leaving anything to the imagination and loath to leave anything out. Maniacal thoroughness has become our national verbal ideal.
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
Jim had a spirit that was incapable of compromise.
I’m plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.
I think it is fine to have sports divided into men’s and women’s, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.
I worked at a shoe store on 86th Street called Orva, in the hosiery department because nobody went there. That’s where they put me because I was too incapable of doing anything.
I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
I’m constitutionally incapable of working on planes or trains, and airports are definitely out.
It’s better for candidates to suggest ideas that are responsible, not ones that are incapable of being executed. People are influenced by what their leaders tell them. And bringing the level of rhetoric down brings the temperature down.
There’s really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you’re incapable of orchestrating things.
Just because I’ve written extensively about race doesn’t render me incapable of making the same mistakes as the people I’ve written about.
If the machinery for distribution in the present economic system of the world is incapable of properly distributing the productive wealth of nations, then that system is false and must be altered.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you’re not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you’re going to take the resource.
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Kids need role models, whether it’s baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it’s not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being – too perfect.
I think it’s just a lack of ability, we’re incapable of writing hits.
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.
Women face so much at various levels – it can be as simple as the common belief that a woman is incapable of doing certain things or the fact that even if you do something wrong to her, she won’t speak up for fear of embarrassment… The time is here that we all should fight against such wrongs.
President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.
Is the Justice Department incapable of regulating itself? Without strong regulation, the privileges we give them to investigate us, to conduct their normal anti-crime things, can spiral out of control.
People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
I think self-love isn’t some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
Visual art and writing don’t exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can’t do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.
Indeed, President Trump has proven himself the professional – the adult in the room as Democrats act like small children, incapable of stepping up to the task at hand and certainly incapable of leading the nation.
Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
One reason I’m such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I’m incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.
I know I’m incapable of orchestrating an entire film.
The modern military justice system is by design a body incapable of blind justice.
There’s this perception that you can’t be more than one thing. That if you’re dubbed ‘sexy’ you can no longer be anything else. That you become intellectually uncomplicated, incapable of accomplishing anything other than appearing to be an object for men. And it’s rubbish.
To put it mildly, I’m not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
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