Insufficient Quotes · Page 2

Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.

— Conrad Black

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions.

— Thomas Leonard

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

— Jane Austen

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts,…

— Learned Hand

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council.

— Steve Chabot

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

— Clement Freud

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally.

— Henry Ford

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My…

— Abraham Lincoln

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon…

— Marty Nemko

If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in an unfree society like…

— Dinesh D'Souza

If history reveals any categorical truth, it is that an insufficient taste for evidence regularly brings out the worst in us. Add…

— Sam Harris

In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient…

— Charles Dow

I think that the Bible as a system of moral guidance in the 21st century is insufficient, to put it mildly. I…

— Emma Thompson

At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means…

— Howard Aiken

The gospel of a God found in broken flesh, humility, and measureless charity has defeated all the old lies, rendered the ancient…

— David Bentley Hart

And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction…

— Terence McKenna

A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well…

— Brooks Atkinson

I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is…

— Konrad Lorenz

Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to…

— Albert Bandura

I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are…

— Ninian Smart

The financial crisis has underscored how insufficient attention to fundamental corporate governance concepts can have devastating effects on an institution and its…

— Daniele Nouy

There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who…

— Gary Taubes

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune.

— Horace

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights.

— Samantha Power

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive

— Konrad Lorenz

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits.

— Radhanath Swami

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient

— John Newman

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.

— Sylvie Guillem

In many cases, the reason why our child development centers are not at full capacity is that we have an insufficient number…

— Mark Esper

We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'

— Sandy Smith

“This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient.”

— C.S. Lewis

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.

— Elizabeth Bowen

“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports.

— James Dale Davidson

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources…

— Jenny Shipley

I suffered most inconvenience from the difficulty of getting news from the civilised world down river, from the irregularity of receipt of…

— Henry Walter Bates

One must take draconian measures of demographic reduction against the will of the populations. Reducing the birth rate has proved to be…

— Robert McNamara