Adequate Quotes

327 Adequate quotes by 283 unique authors

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn… — Ruth Benedict
I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald
There's an enduring American compulsion to be on the side of the angels. Expediency alone has never been an adequate American reason for doing anything.… — Jonathan Raban
In return for financial support will advocate admission of Jews to England; This however impossible while Charles living. Charles cannot be executed without trial on… — Oliver Cromwell
The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate… — Lucille Roybal-Allard
I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were… — Stuart Symington
I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan. — Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again... In many cases,… — Adolf Hitler
I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a… — Barry Sanders
I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate. — Kevin Nealon
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex… — Terry Eagleton
Whether I get adequate attention or not, people here do know the work I have been doing systematically and without compromise for over 40 years.… — Bill Dixon
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog
I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then… — Ben Bernanke
It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges. — Bob Barr
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods. — Jane Byrne
By giving the FDA adequate resources and authority to both prevent outbreaks and intervene once they appear, we can support the administration's efforts to reassure… — Diana DeGette
Given any rule, however "fundamental" or "necessary" for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to… — Paul Feyerabend
Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis -… — Stephen Jay Gould

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