The painting develops before my eyes, unfolding its surprises as it progresses. It is this which gives me the sense of complete liberty, and for this reason I am incapable of forming a plan or making a sketch beforehand.
Yves Tanguy
The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.
E. T. Bell
The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
Frank Chodorov
The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.
Dylan Moran
The U.S. and Britain are incapable of controlling all of Iraq.
Bashar al-Assad
There is a lack of critical assessment of the past. But you have to understand that the current ruling elite is actually the old ruling elite. So they are incapable of a self-critical approach to the past.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
George Henry Lewes
We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country.
Ronald Reagan
When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air of vacuity and farce, and the Senate becomes incapable of either properly evaluating nominees or appropriately educating the public.
Elena Kagan
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
George Herman
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