Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.
Whether the authorities be invaders or merely local tyrants, the effect of such [gun control] laws is to place the individual at the mercy of the state, unable to resist.
If the extension of your compassion does not include all living beings, then you will be unable to find peace by yourself.
Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
We assert that in those areas where the government is either unable or unwilling to protect the lives and property of our people, that our peopie are within our rights to protect themselves by whatever means necessary.
Habit! that skillful but slow arranger, which starts out by letting our spirit suffer for weeks in a temporary state, but that thespirit is after all happy to discover, for without habit and reduced to its own resources, the spirit would be unable to make any lodgings seem habitable.
There are good reasons for being obedient, but being unable to be disobedient is not one of the best reasons.
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
[People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents.
Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.
To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern.
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.
But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
When you hear about what someone else is going through, and you are unable to distance yourself from it or in any way muzzle your empathy and are inspired to actually do something, these are moments to learn from.
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?
My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same time finding itself unable to accomplish the simple business of conducting human lives. We have been sold a bill of goods as a substitute for life. What is needed is reassurance in human emotions; a re-evaluation of our emotional capacities.
Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of deuling emotions.
This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.