The only justification for writing a novel is that it…

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of…

— E. Stanley Jones

Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to…

— Ernest Gold

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores…

— Charles Dickens

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

— Margaret Fuller

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration…

— Jon Corzine

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality…

— Dalai Lama

Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another…

— Agnes Repplier

A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until…

— Dan Gelber

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the…

— Terry Eagleton

You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a…

— Martha Graham

In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Travelling doesn't stress me, since adequate 10-hour sleep post-travel is sufficient for me.

— Anushka Shetty

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

— Emily Dickinson

Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the…

— Pope Benedict XVI