This collection holds 418 unable quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Publilius Syrus, Tony Hawk and Emily Dickinson.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

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

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Drink is the only opponent I have been unable to beat.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

You can have a value system and be unable to totally live it.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

It's really difficult for me to watch when I'm unable to play myself.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

It's a long process for me since I am unable to write a script faster.

Today, if you are unable to sing properly, technology can support you.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

I used to be a very timid person, unable to express what I was feeling.

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

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

Fame is very heavy. When there are large crowds, I'm unable to handle it.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

I spent four of my five years at Stanford writing a novel I was unable to sell.

The problem with humans is that they are unable to handle their own intelligence.

Men seem unable to feel equal to women: they must be superior or they are inferior.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

As a British person, I am unable to give strategic advice to political campaigns in the U.S.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

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

The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.

I find myself for whatever reason unable to live in the apartment I renovate and have to sell.

I had a migraine for about seven or eight straight days, and I was unable to sleep most nights.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

They were unable to stand up and say: 'Here's our policy. It's Unite the world against terrorism.'

The Cure is clearly above average but seemingly unable to rally itself to move to a higher plateau.

I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

When I moved to Mumbai I had no acting background and so was unable to make a breakthrough for years.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

A devastating commentary on the war in Iraq is that we have been unable to spend money on infrastructure.

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