Not Capable Quotes

#1. The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

Jackson Katz

#2. No one has been successful in this 'race course'. One simply dies of exhaustion from running. 'We' (the Gnani Purush, the enlightened one) never take part in this race. 'We' would simply tell, 'Dear Man, I am not capable.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

Vladimir Putin

#4. I would not ask from you, Anything that you were not capable of giving, I would not ask from you, Anythng but that which I truly need, I would not take from you, Without giving equal value in return.

Javan

#5. Many Eastern spiritual groups feel that women are not capable of enlightenment. They advise women to have sons and pray to be men in their next incarnations

Frederick Lenz

#6. The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.

Barbara G. Walker

#7. The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Assata Shakur

#8. Some men are not capable of learning anything that does not agree with their own opinions.

Rachel Neumeier

#9. I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

Oriana Fallaci

#10. Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

Anita Pallenberg

#11. I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

Dominic Savio

#12. Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

Mike Tyson

#13. The Philippines are ours forever. They are not capable of self- government. How could they be? They are not a self-governing race.

Albert J. Beveridge

#14. He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Victor Hugo

#15. You are not capable of insulting, even in thought, her who so loved and so loves you.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.

Courtney Milan

#17. That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

Nhat Hanh

#18. I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is.

Lee Ann Womack

#19. There is no act of treachery or mean-ness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour

Benjamin Disraeli

#20. There
is not a person alive who is not capable of greatly contributing to the
well - being of this planet. Just changing your attitude can affect the
world around you.

Susan Jeffers

#21. Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.

Jon Jones

#22. If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#23. People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility, are not capable of self-government ... without virtue, a society can be ruled only by fear, a truth that tyrants understand all too well

Charles W. Colson

#24. I think that generally, being honest with oneself and others about what you are or are not capable of doing can counteract that feeling of lack of self-confidence.

Dalai Lama XIV

#25. You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

Bear Bryant

#26. Sometimes people - especially people over 40 - underestimate what they really are capable of. They believe they're not capable of doing something great. I tell people who are over 40, "I don't want your best. I want better than that. I want better than what you perceive your best is."

Jack LaLanne

#27. A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting which is general throughout a given society, while at the same time existing in its own right independent of its individual manifestations.

Emile Durkheim

#28. If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression,

Oswald Chambers

#29. Yes. I reply, though in all honesty I'm just not sure. I feel a paradigm shift. I know that if I do this thing with him, I will get hurt. He's not capable, interested, or willing to offer me any more ... and I want more. Much more.

E.L. James

#30. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. The bully mind is not capable of loving or respecting others nor can it love or respect itself. Life's subtleties and the means of survival require its pretense of both these qualities.

Rick Stein

#32. without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.

David Amerland

#33. Why will you be always sallying out to break lances with other people's wind-mills, when your own is not capable of grinding corn for the horse you ride?

J.G. Holland

#34. We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual

Paul Ricoeur

#35. And no, I am not capable of experiencing the present with the same sort of attention to detail. But once the present becomes the past I seem to have no problem attending to it obsessively. : )

Melanie Gideon

#36. It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Dwight L. Moody

#37. Most people assume that autistic people are not capable of empathy.

Claire Danes

#38. Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Thomas Paine

#39. Building confidence comes from overcoming the voice in your head that says you are not capable; silence the noise and then prove it wrong.

Sam Owen

#40. Jefferson writes dismissively of slaves that "their griefs are transient." American white supremacists to this day maintain that blacks are "mud people" because their lack of conscience prevents them from blushing - they are not capable of summoning "blood in the face," as the

Christopher Hitchens

#41. We are not capable of union with one another on the deepest level until the inner self in each one of us is sufficiently awakened to confront the inmost spirit of the other.

Thomas Merton

#42. During bull markets, everyone believes that he is committed to stocks for the long term. Unfortunately, history also tells us that during bear markets, you can hardly give stocks away. Most investors are simply not capable of withstanding the vicissitudes of an all-stock investment strategy. The

William J. Bernstein

#43. Truly to appreciate what fossils are requires a leap of imagination he was not capable of making.

Tracy Chevalier

#44. People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.

T.I.

#45. The majority of men ... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and ... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#46. I am incapable of directing a film like 'Agneenath.' I can do only what I am good at, so I would have been the worst choice to direct it. It has aggression, action and an inherent violence in it - things I am not capable of directing in my films.

Karan Johar

#47. It is long been a principal of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully.

Jeff Cooper

#48. Horses are incredibly forgiving. They fill in places we're not capable of filling ourselves.

Buck Brannaman

#49. The centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Mark Fisher

#50. Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

#51. I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

Shakira

#52. I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Paulo Coelho

#53. The dead are never truly gone. They linger in our minds and hearts and torture us with a malice they were not capable of in life.

Courtney M. Privett

#54. They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.

Salma Hayek

#55. I am not capable of true friendship. One of the two friends is always the slave of the other, although, often, neither of the two admits this to himself.

Mikhail Lermontov

#56. Now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

Helen Westley

#57. So it is just you and your friends then."

"Yes. Is that so hard to believe?" Is it because we're girls? I want to say. You think a bunch of girls are not capable of something like this?

Shirley Marr

#58. If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

Aksel Hennie

#59. I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

David Nicholls

#60. Don't make a baby if you're not capable of unconditional love.

Caroline Kepnes

#61. First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

Margaret Cavendish

#62. I am always making that what I am not capable, in an attempt to learn how to doing it.

Pablo Picasso

#63. One is not worthy to have what one, through weakness, lets be taken from him; one is not worthy of it because one is not capable of it.

Max Stirner

#64. He touched me. We kissed and we held hands sometimes. It was proper. Do you think I should have been with him in that way?" "Hell, no. He's probably not capable." "He's married now. They have children." "Must be Catholic." "What makes you say that?" "Virgin births.

Ellen O'Connell

#65. God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

#66. So far, the general perception, including the perception in India, was that we are not capable of using high technology. They simply refused to believe an Indian can do it! I somehow was not ready to accept that this is not possible.

Baba Kalyani

#67. The universe is then one, infinite, immobile ... It is not capable of comprehension and therefore is endless and limitless, and to that extent infinite and indeterminable, and consequently immobile.

Giordano Bruno

#68. Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

Alfred Binet

#69. Poor Capablanca! Thou wert a brilliant technician, but no philosopher. Thou wert not capable of believing that in chess, another style could be victorious than the absolutely correct one.

Max Euwe

#70. There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

George Eliot

#71. Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Ron Livingston

#72. The brain cannot multitask...The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time...This attentional ability is, to put it bluntly, not capable of multitasking.

John Medina

#73. If you are not capable of being alone, your relationship is false. It is just a trick to avoid your loneliness, nothing else.

Rajneesh

#74. Men, I think, are not capable of doing nothing, of saying nothing, of not reacting to injustice, of not protesting against oppression, of not striving for the good of society and the good life in the ways they see it.

Nelson Mandela

#75. I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Jeremy Clarkson

#76. What I can't quite see at this stage is that the evidence, even to the president, seems to be that clear. And if it is that clear, I can't understand why we are not capable of convincing our closest allies that given that evidence, they ought to join us in this effort.

Lawrence Eagleburger

#77. Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.

William Blake

#78. Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

Molly Ivins

#79. Some people are not capable of giving you what you're trying to get from them.

Sonia Friedman

#80. I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

Katharine Graham

#81. Empty in this dirt and flat on my back
both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck
the truth of it all is i am very capable of love
it's just that im not capable of letting you go
and it goes, and it goes, and it goes, and it goes

Craig Owens

#82. The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

Paul Ormerod

#83. I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.

Phil Simms

#84. I don't need to hear all of society's rationalizations. I've heard them all before and the fact remains that what is, is. You don't understand me. You are not expected to. You are not capable of it.

Richard Ramirez

#85. When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.

Milan Kundera

#86. I behave myself, but it doesn't mean I'm not interested. Being faithful to my commitments doesn't mean thoughts don't cross my mind or that I'm foolish enough to believe I'm not capable.

Patricia Cornwell

#87. Our brains are not capable of comprehending the infinite so, instead, we ignore it and eat cheese on toast.

Jonathan Cainer

#88. Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.

Samuel Johnson

#89. You're not capable of stepping into nirvana at this time. If you did it would be disastrous. You're tonal would be swamped.

Frederick Lenz

#90. I know I am not capable of suffering more than I did during those few minutes of suspense in the dark, surrounded by those creeping, bloody-minded tarantulas. I

Mark Twain

#91. She didn't want to talk about his nonsensical fairy stuff. "That's because you can't take me there. You're not capable of it. Because it doesn't exist.

Terry Spear

#92. If the professors don't start or continue to figure out who we are as a people, where we're going and where we've been, then in a sense we are not capable of passing on that knowledge to future generations.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad

#93. The things you did, you know they were not right. But that does not mean you are not capable of doing right. It only means that you chose to do wrong.

R.J. Palacio

#94. The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad.

M.R.C. Kasasian

#95. I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

Rohit Shetty

#96. Government is not capable of caring. Government gets things done through coercion. They fine, they penalize, they tax, they confiscate, they jail, they bully to get what they want.

Rush Limbaugh

#97. The United States isn't going to do anything That it's not capable of doing. And if we do something, We'll be capable of doing it.

Donald Rumsfeld

#98. I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.

Jules Verne

#99. I'll do what little I can in writing. Only it will be very little. I'm not capable of it; and if I were, you would not go near it at all. For if you did, you would hardly bear to live

James Agee

#100. The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

Charles Babbage