Congenitally Quotes

#1. Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person's eyes.

Oliver Sacks

#2. Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

H.L. Mencken

#3. She loves the sun and the sea. She is her happiest there.

Helen Barolini

#4. If you haven't realised by this time that I love you, and always shall love you, and have never loved anybody else, and never shall love anybody else, you're a fathead

P.G. Wodehouse

#5. One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.

Malcolm Bradbury

#6. It's well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice.

David Foster Wallace

#7. Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,

Jonathan Tropper

#8. Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

Joe Klein

#9. Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

John Berger

#11. You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

Morgan Wootten

#12. What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Tommy showed me around, starting with the photos on the walls, many of which were of himself, including a few grand, framed neoclassical portraits he'd had done.

Greg Sestero

#14. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Anna Funder

#15. I realized that the whole time I was holding this beautiful stranger in my arms, feeding on her, it felt like I was betraying Sofia.

Bella Forrest

#16. Barack Obama is the president of the United States of America. More specifically, Barack Obama is the president of a congenitally racist country, erected upon the plunder of life, liberty, labor, and land. This plunder has not been exclusive to black people. - Ta

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

William Faulkner

#18. Generations of women have been told they are delusional, confused, manipulative, malicious, conspiratorial, congenitally dishonest, often all at once. Part

Rebecca Solnit

#19. To be poor in spirit is to recognize one's need to receive help

Sunday Adelaja

#20. You know what's wrong with scientific power? It's a form of inherited wealth. And you know what assholes congenitally rich people are.

Michael Crichton

#21. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.

E.B. White