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Enough Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
- Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
- The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural…
- No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.
- For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.
- Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough…
- By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.
- I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central…
- John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough…
- If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies…
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and…
- "If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as…
More Enough Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else. — Mackenzie Astin
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe