Inability Quotations | Page 3

I'm sure that many of the deaths that have occurred (after the hurricane) have resulted from people with chronic diseases either suffering from dehydration or (the) inability to access their medications, ... All of these risks of suffering from chronic diseases and dying from them were greatest for the poor and the other people who could not get out of there.

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

inherent inability to provide knowledgeable oversight and support for technical and operational programs.

I'm appalled at your inability to work with the community.

If there are frequent outbreaks, that means some measures are not being taken. The repeated outbreaks really is a signal of seriousness and the inability of the surveillance system.

If you look at last year, Lone Peak had a lot of one-goal wins and ties. The most frustrating thing for them had been their inability to score. I believe that once we work on some group tactics, get openings that we can get guys into, it will open up scoring opportunities.

In this presumption-of-guilt culture, which is what has come about in Washington in the last 10 or 15 years, there must be a sense of anger there and an inability to manage the facts.

Superstition Vistas sits out there vacant, not because there aren't buyers for it, but because we can't plan it. We don't have the money. Our inability to plan the land has caused development to leap over it. That's not supposed to happen.

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.

The New Orleans calamity proved overwhelmingly the government's inability to solve chronic, fundamental problems with communications. No one in the government has shown leadership on this issue, and now the results are tragic.

Does this explain the Kevin phenomenon? It might be behind the social ineptitude of early adolescents, the seeming inability to understand the two expressions that have this dip most strikingly - sadness and anger.

Their unifying characteristic is they're not romantic. They have this inability to recognize the simple romantic needs of their counterpart. They just never know the right thing!

Their 7-for-9 shooting in the second half from 3-point land was something that really, really hurt us deeply. But the inability of us to get the ball into the paint was probably the thing that killed us.

The fall in retail sector profits reflects the inability of many retailers to pass on cost increases in an environment of weak consumer spending.

That's disturbing, to say the least - our inability to affect two-deep zone coverage in the run game. We've never had that problem before. Certainly that was a problem in the game (Sunday), and will continue to be a problem until we effectively attack two-deep coverage in the run game.

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.

Inability to pay decides for many of us perplexing questions that worry the well-to-do.

Cisco's inability to reduce its inventory after the October quarter when revenues grew 14 percent quarter over quarter and inventory grew by 59 percent quarter over quarter reaffirms our view that we have not yet seen the worst of the inventory correction for semiconductor suppliers.

His departure is likely related to Gateway's inability to reinvigorate its professional and direct businesses despite significant headway in retail.

I really think it came down to our inability to keep them off the offensive glass.

But in another way, community is a terrible place. It is the place where our limitations and our egoism are revealed to us. When we begin to live full-time with others, we discover our poverty and our weakness, our inability to get on with people, our mental and emotional blocks . . . our seemingly insatiable desires, our frustrations and jealousies, our hatred and our wish to destroy.

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

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 . . .

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

The voters have indicated ... that they are disappointed in his inability to get anything done.

There was a profound failure to be proactive, a deep inability to execute,

They violated every rule in the book. I've studied feeding frenzies. This is a classic feeding frenzy, and it was created in part by their inability to get the news out. You have to tell the truth, and you need to get the facts out completely as soon as possible. This was a public-relations disaster because they didn't do that.

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.

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

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

A great flaw in men is their inability to open wide their tiny eyes. And it shows!

The current inability to market products in Europe makes it extremely difficult - and the concerns that have been expressed in Europe are beginning to be raised in the Far East,

The forum exposes the current government's inability to promote cross-Strait economic and trade relations.

The inability to follow through yesterday and break through $58 makes it likely that we are close to the bottom and prices are set to rise. Demand is starting to improve and distillate supplies continue to fall. It will have to get cold at some point and we will be in trouble.

The inability to hold those gains is a sign that nobody really believed that there was a lot of upside.

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

The inability to raise prices requires us to take even tougher measures to reduce costs,

The difference in the game was Thomasville's ability to finish and our inability to finish.

The difference represents the inability of the industry to provide moderately priced housing for the first-time homebuyer, largely due to the continuing constraints in the developable land supply in the coastal urban cores of the state and the burgeoning extractions demanded by local government.

The difference was our inability to take care of the basketball and guard their key players at critical times. They've got so much firepower.

The city's inability to plow side streets has created public health and safety concerns in many neighborhoods due to the lack of access for police, fire and other emergency vehicles,

The key problem here is, and continues to be, the inability of people to put aside egos and address this on a regional basis, not on a stovepipe basis.

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

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

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

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

The true historic extremes we saw over the past week or so lent a lot of credence to the likelihood of higher prices over the next 60 to 90 days and beyond. But I am very troubled by the inability of the broader market to rally in the face of these readings.

It's more of a policy decision to not grant us the benefits and the wages than an inability to pay. They're not denying their ability to pay.

It's the inability of the laws and institutions to accommodate these fine differences in people that has always provided a theme for me.

The number of citations issued was significantly lower than original estimates, ... Only 19% of drivers captured by the cameras are cited, due to the inability of the current cameras' technology to accurately identify violators.

It's not like Sony is going out of business, but there are so many stories to tell about the company's inability to grasp opportunities.

I tried to start the game off with pressure and force them into reactions. Tried to avoid being flat given the circumstances. It might have worked for a while, but we didn't play good basketball. And they exposed our inability to execute offensively. No different than a lot of games this season.

Everyone looked at him like he was their ... savior, ... everywhere he went he was an object of admiration and adoration -- and yet he couldn't muffle the growing discontent, the helplessness he felt at his inability to control not so much the world around him as his private world, the inner world that was revealed to no one but him.

Even very basic risk issues such as inoperative traffic lights, building lifts, security systems, inoperative medical facilities and the inability to continue business-as-usual are amongst the perils caused by a power failure that need to be accounted for in a risk assessment and contingency plans.

that somehow the inability of a woman to pursue a normal function due to health reasons isn't an illness.

It's a team we don't match up well with. Our inability to rebound has been a problem all year long. I knew Arizona State was going to win some more games this year. It's too bad we had to pay the price. You've got to credit their defense.

We have to do a better job of closing out a game. Our inability to hit free throws in the late stages almost allowed them (Averill Park) to slip back in.

We are very disappointed in our inability to recover past costs for this program, but it was imperative that the contract be renegotiated to curtail future program investments and cash outflows. The renegotiation allows for an increase in motor pricing for 14 motors to be delivered in 2006 and 2007. Pricing for an additional 21 motors in 2008 and beyond will be subject to negotiation during the next year.

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.

It was a year in which two significant fundamental weaknesses in our North American operations were fully exposed - our huge legacy cost burden and our inability to adjust structural costs in line with revenue.

Though our employees are scattered across the country like many of clients, we have been operating virtually for about 10 days now. Our only limitation is access to paper files and a temporary inability to access servers housed at our Canal Street office.

We got a little bit lucky in the first half. The inability for us to secure rebounds and second chance points were astronomical. We tried jumping and many of the boards went their way and they had many opportunities. They are 12-1 and they are there for a reason. They have some quality players. They have decent makeup and it can be difficult to guard the various weapons that they have.

We got a lot of good looks, we didn't make them and Missouri State did a good job of running its stuff. They did a good job of attacking and getting to the free-throw line, along with our inability to make shots.

The most common bad habit I have seen in traders - good and bad ones - is the inability to react correctly to market action.

It's been a long, painful hibernation. I've learned the pain of being a fan, that inability to lash out and just have to take it, to rope-a-dope-it.

There will be a healthy debate as to the mayor's inability to manage the public school system in his own city. There will be a healthy debate as to why Baltimore City is one of the most violent cities in America.

This is the nature of the people we are dealing with. These are three troubled young men with anger problems, alcohol problems and the inability to tell the truth (on the stand).

They pressured us, and I thought we handled that pretty well. But the keys were their second-chance points and our inability to cash in on our chances in the second quarter. That, and they force us to play at a quicker pace than we wanted to at times.

I am not a person who will cling to power. Considering the totality of circumstances and with the Governor pleading inability to grant more time, I have decided to resign.

I don't think their press gave us too many problems, outside of a minute here and a minute there. It was our inability to finish at times.

For the first two days, there was an inability to communicate with decision makers, so LNHA staff set up our own rescue missions.

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

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

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.

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

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

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

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.

Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.

Hell is the inability to love.

The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

I just have an inability to lie.

The difference in the game was our inability to catch the ball behind the plate.

Our real illiteracy is our inability to create

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

The business changes. The technology changes. The team changes. The team members change. The problem isn't change, per se, because change is going to happen; the problem, rather, is the inability to cope with change when it comes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

As ministers we ought to speak of God. We are human, however, and so cannot speak of God. We ought therefore to recognize both our obligation and our inability and by that very recognition give glory to God

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.