Unable

Famous quotes containing the word unable:

    He is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations, and behold it as it lies absolutely to be disposed of by the intellect,—what, for instance, it behooves a man to do here in America to-day with regard to slavery.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    compassion
    turns in on itself
    biting its tongue, unable to cry out
    or give it a name.
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    He is like a comedian who for over thirty years has been unable to think of any new jokes.
    Edward James (1907–1984)