“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
After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. — Simon Le Bon 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
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
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff… — Francis Harold Cook Copy Share Image
We get most upset with those we love because they are close to us and we know that they are aware of… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Some build their sense of personal worth by comparing themselves to others. That approach can lead to feelings of inadequacy or superiority.… — Quentin L. Cook Copy Share Image
One should not utter a word about his own inadequacies. In the Oxo it says: 'When a man lets out a single… — Takeda Nobushige 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
Twice in my life I have spent two weary and scientifically profitless years seeking evidence to corroborate dearly loved hypotheses that later… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself… — Ernst Junger Copy Share Image
Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
God is looking for imperfect men and women who have learned to walk in moment-by-momen t dependence on the Holy Spirit. Christians… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre 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
There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
In their quest for power and self-importance, to compensate for whatever feelings of social inadequacy or sexual insecurity, they (Politicians)are prepared to… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
“I know my Leader; that He is just as well as mighty; and while He has chosen a feeble instrument to perform… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes… — James L. Brooks Copy Share Image
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've… — Daniel Baldwin Copy Share Image
Advertisers in general bear a large part of the responsibility for the deep feelings of inadequacy that drive women to psychiatrists, pills,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Often we hate in others the thing which we fear in ourselves; or we hate because the other person raises to our… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by… — Antony Sher Copy Share Image
“We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release.… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic,… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
