Famous quotes containing the word unable:
“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)
“compassion
turns in on itself
biting its tongue, unable to cry out
or give it a name.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)