Inadequate Quotes · Page 3

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

— Steven Millhauser

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

— Stanley Kunitz

“When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

— John Ambrose Fleming

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

— John Adams

“You realise you’re going to owe me dinner after this, right?” “How does McDonald’s sound?” “Inadequate.”

— Sarah Mayberry

What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

— Helmut Thielicke

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

Psalm 34 says, 'Those who trust in the Lord will never lack any good thing.' This means if you don't have it…

— Joel Osteen

Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological…

— Helen Fisher

Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of…

— Mors Kochanski

Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes…

— Herman Kahn

I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an…

— Gary McCord

If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Attack anything that makes you feel unworthy, inadequate, hopeless, powerless and useless. That is the evidence of the enemy. All those things…

— Graham Cooke

How often-even before we began-have we declared a task 'impossible'? And how often have we construed a picture of ourselves as being…

— Piero Ferrucci

God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an…

— Julian Huxley

To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep…

— Muhammad Yunus

Government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people, nation or community; whenever any government…

— George Mason

The woman's bill of rights is, unhappily, long overdue. It should have run along with the rights of man in the eighteenth…

— Mary Ritter Beard

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind…

— Ritchie Blackmore

I've been blessed with two beautiful daughters. It is amazing how inadequate I can feel in being able to protect, teach, and…

— Patrick Fabian

Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear…

— Julia Child

I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

— Domenico Gnoli

I've felt too stupid and inadequate amongst my ultra-intelligent course-mates, yet too geeky and opinionated for commercial radio.

— Vick Hope

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

— Janet Burroway

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg…

— Susan George

I was the Secretary of State of New Jersey in November 2000. I paid careful attention to the challenges that stemmed from…

— DeForest Soaries

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

— Craig Stadler

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.

— Vita Sackville-West

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

— John Lydon

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these…

— Mia Wasikowska

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

— Ron Wyden

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

— Jose Raul Capablanca

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

— Robert Fulghum

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

— Jurgen Habermas

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who…

— Marianne Williamson

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

— Haim Ginott

It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.

— Ralph W. Moss