Inability

Famous quotes containing the word inability:

    “It is in our interests to let the police and their employers go on believing that the Underground is a conspiracy, because it increases their paranoia and their inability to deal with what is really happening. As long as they look for ringleaders and documents they will miss their mark, which is that proportion of every personality which belongs in the Underground.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.”
    —Julia Marlowe (1870–1950)

    “Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television—with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)