#unable

In those days, reserve duty lasted for six years, which, I might add, was three times as long as service in the regular army, although to be perfectly honest, I was unable to fulfill my entire obligation because I was taking acting classes and they said I could skip my last year. ↗

— Larry David

#add #although #army #because #classes

A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a whole week, we were unable to find those that had effected the kidnappings. ↗

— Robert Bourassa

#been #cabinet #diplomat #effected #find

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way. ↗

— Albert Speer

#any #been #both #effect #extraordinary

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out. ↗

— Trofim Lysenko

#darwin #day #errors #fight #free

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

— Marianne Moore

#himself #unable #unfair #writer

If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#childless #couple #difference #gay #heterosexual

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#against #baby #biological #blind #desperate

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point. ↗

— Roh Moo-hyun

#destiny #determine #forced #go #history

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

— Angela Merkel

#germans #nonsense #say #unable

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

#attacked #attempted #avoid #because #defended