Quotes of Unfit - somelinesforyou

“ This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Unable are the loved to die. For love is immortality. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ”

- Douglas Yates

“ God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper. ”

- Richard Buckminster Fuller

“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. ”

- Arthur C. Clarke

“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- Harry Shearer

“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”

- Aristotle

“ If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ It isn't the incompetent who destroy an organization. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. ”

- Charles Sorenson

“ Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving? ”

- Francis Atterbury

“ Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. ”

- Brendan Behan

“ Worry is a complete cycle of inefficient thought revolving about a pivotal fear. ”

- Unknown

“ To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ”

- Nigel Lawson

“ I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise. ”

- Hayao Miyazaki

“ I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. ”

- Tony Hawk

“ Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ One swallow maketh not a summer. ”

- John Heywood

“ Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“ The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life. ”

- Alexis Carrel

“ I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell. ”

- Jessye Norman

“ He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. ”

- Abigail Adams

“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Salvor Hardin. ”

- Salvor Hardin

“ Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

- Dame Edith Sitwell

“ Censorship always defeats it own purpose, for it creates in the end the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. ”

- Henry Commager

“ God is a verb, not a noun proper or improper. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ A military operation involves deception. Even though you are competent, appear to be incompetent. Though effective, appear to be ineffective. ”

- Sun tzu

“ God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ”

- Lord Acton
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