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What worries me the most is that most men are so weak. Because of that they act like they don`t care and like machos - because they are too fragile inside. They`re scared of confrontation and afraid of so many things. And because of this they build up their life so they have to deal with their feelings as little as possible. I find feminine men unbelievably sexy. But most men are completely incapable of getting in touch with their feminine side. What am I supposed to talk about with a man who doesn`t know what it`s like to be a woman?

- Salma Hayek

(On composing for `The Bears and I`) Heck, I`m no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs. I know I`m incapable of orchestrating an entire film. They just asked me to write something expressing the story about a guy who`s back from Vietnam and sorta lost, who goes to an Indian village in the Northwest.

- John Denver

I remember thinking and feeling and believing that I was not able to stop, that I genuinely was incapable of putting an end to this. It wasn`t even that I didn`t know what to do with myself if I could stop. I didn`t take the thought that far. It was, `My God, I can`t stop. Now what?` Not, `OK, if I stop?` That was a terribly sad reality. - On his drug and alcohol abuse.

- Charlie Sheen

People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole.

- Jennifer Connelly

It is important to me to stay in Canada. I used to think it was because I thought it was important to build up an indigenous film industry - but now I realise I`m incapable of living anywhere else. I`m a real homebody.

- Sarah Polley

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

- Albert Einstein

The truth is that I`m constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job.

- Dylan Moran

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

- John J. Pershing

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

- Knut Hamsun

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

- Robert A. Heinlein

It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

- Ivor Novello

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

- Ivor Novello

Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.

- Andrzej Wajda

Creation, to me, is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surrounds us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of stratagems which in the end prove completely incapable of staving off chaos.

- Peter Greenaway

It`s not like we`re incapable of winning. We`re just in a rut right now. It`s a big rut, though.

- Mike Sweeney

The best I can say is that it`s better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It`s better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

- Paul Westerberg

I think that there`s not a joke on this record, where once there always was for comic relief. I simply was incapable of coming up with one this time.

- Paul Westerberg

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

- George Bernard Shaw

Be thou incapable of change in that which is right, and men will rely upon thee. Establish unto thyself principles of action; and see that thou ever act according to them. First know that thy principles are just, and then be thou.

- Akhenaton

has been incapable of separating his personal politics from his professional responsibilities.

- Tom Reynolds

I`m incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it`s integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

- John Shirley

If we throw up our hands, it almost seems we are incapable of coming together,

- Chris Miller

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty.

- James Monroe

Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families.

- Kim Campbell

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.

- Aaron Howard

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.

- Adriana Sabino

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He`s just incapable of it.

- Al Hutchinson

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

- Alan Sandals

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

- Alex Cunningham

I am told that the majority of Iraqis wanted Saddam removed from power, but they were unwilling and were incapable of doing the job themselves because they feared Saddam and knew the pain and torture he was capable of inflicting upon them.

- Alexandros Roussos

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

- Alexei Makarkin

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

- Alfred Jarry

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

- Allan Donald

It is difficult to understand these people who democratically take part in elections and a referendum, but are then incapable of democratically accepting the will of the people.

- Allan Radel

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

- Allan Reid

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

- Alleggrie Guinn

But if destruction is far removed from God, because He is incorruptible and eternal, it follows that the divine power is incapable of division.

- Allie Zazzali

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

- Allie Zazzali

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

- Alyssa Biondo

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.

- Amelia Bartels

But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

- Amitai Sandy

Having refuted, then, as well as we could, every notion which might suggest that we were to think of God as in any degree corporeal, we go on to say that, according to strict truth, God is incomprehensible, and incapable of being measured.

- Amitai Sandy

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.

- Andrea Bagley

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. The modern industrial proletariat does not belong to the category of such classes.

- Andrew Joudrey

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

- Andrew Klenert

Laurel: I`m incapable of small talk.

- Andy Kerley

This is the most tragic bus accident that has happened in American history because it involved people who were incapable of taking care of themselves. There`s no worse way to die than being burned to death in a place you can`t escape.

- Ba Shusong

This is an illustration of a new sectarianism where somebody is considered incapable of making an objective decision because they hold ethical, philosophical or religious views.

- Baris Cetinok

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

- Oscar Wilde