All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
Jean de la Bruyere

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
David Hare

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
Walter Bagehot

But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after the Cuban missile crisis, immediate steps were taken to correct our inability to collect on the movement of nuclear material out of the Soviet Union to other places.
David Kay

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

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

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.
Mikhail Bakunin

I identify with this guy's frustration and inability to control his fury at moments. I even identify with the way that this guy covers up a lot with humour. So yeah, it's interesting.
Bradley Whitford

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
John Cazale

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
Edie Brickell

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
Audre Lorde

It was the business that made Pop go away, not our inability to create.
Jeffrey Katzenberg

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Julian Schnabel

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
Ben Shahn

Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
Norman Borlaug

Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons.
Ralph Merkle

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
Paul Getty

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud