The inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.” — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage. — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character… — William James Copy Share Image
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
May not the inadequacy of much of our spiritual experience be traced back to our habit of skipping through the corridors of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
We can either watch life from the sidelines, or actively participate... Either we let self-doubt and feelings of inadequacy prevent us from… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your… — Barbara Sher Copy Share Image
Does inadequacy not characterize all that we make use of to perceive and describe the world? Are the signs of language not… — Georges Didi-Huberman Copy Share Image
We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities. Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I'm just going, 'Any moment, someone's… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
Our weaknesses are always evident, both to ourselves and others. But our strengths are hidden until we choose to reveal them--and that… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
Big mountains are a completely different world: snow, ice, rocks, sky, and thin air. You cannot conquer them, only rise to their… — Anatoli Boukreev Copy Share Image
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies… — Paloma Faith Copy Share Image
Inadequacy of his own strength, learned from experience, impels and urges a man to enlist the help of others. — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn… — Neil Welliver Copy Share Image
Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
“When you see yourself as a work-in-progress, you’re automatically less likely to experience feelings of inadequacy.” — Valerie Young Copy Share Image
But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless. — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.” — Murasaki Shikibu Copy Share Image
Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race? — Monty Woolley Copy Share Image
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. — Simon Le Bon Copy Share Image
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. — Donald Woods Winnicott Copy Share Image
Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU! — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked by things too wonderful for… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
Confront your inadequacies and push your personal boundaries: It's the surest way to grow, improve and expand the scope of your influence. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies. — Grace Metalious Copy Share Image
Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked. — Anonymous Copy Share Image