#inability

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #inability




Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?


Yann Martel


#old-age #rudeness #study-in-character #age

Why does no one speak of the cultural advantages of the country? For example, is a well groomed, ecologically kept, sustainably fertile farm any less cultural, any less artful, than paintings of fat angels on church ceilings?


Gene Logsdon


#country-life #culture #farming #sustainability #art

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)


Wendell Berry


#economics #lies #sustainability #beauty

That was the awakening, really; it dawned on me that this wasn't really very fair on anyone. On her. On me. On Sienna. But I wasn't willing to change anything, either. I was fiercely protective of my friendship with Sienna. I had fought for it, against my true feelings, for years. I had battled so hard to suppress my feelings, and succeeded. I could never let her go.


Jessica Thompson


#long-term-friendship #change

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.


Terence McKenna


#gun #sustainability #western-civilization #civilization

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #japan #sustainability #art

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.


John Updike


#appeals #become #child #childlike #count