Inadequate Quotes
228 Inadequate quotes by 198 unique authors
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The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens…
— C.S. Lewis
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There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is…
— Carl Sagan
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To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you…
— Muhammad Yunus
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Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love.
— Lan Samantha Chang
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How will the ships navigate without stars? And then he remembered that the stars were dead, long dead, and the light they shed was not…
— Jeet Thayil
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Patch? Whatever happens, I love you." I wanted to say more, those three words painfully inadequate for the way I felt about him. And at…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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If the bringing of children into the world is today an economic burden, it is because the social system is inadequate; and not because God’s…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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The fact that we do not speak it but sing it only expresses the fact that our spoken words are inadequate to express what we…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity,…
— Claire Messud
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
— Abraham Lincoln
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July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves,…
— Mark Twain
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We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral…
— John Quincy Adams
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You can't overestimate the need to plan and prepare. In most of the mistakes I've made, there has been this common theme of inadequate planning…
— Chris Corrigan
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Local brands evoke national pride, are seen as less profit-oriented, and are often formed on deep local insights. But quality worries persist, innovation is questioned,…
— Unknown Author
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Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.
— Meg Ryan
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What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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My father-in-law and I always had great interest in Indian sport. At the Athens Olympics, watching the wrestling event, we started discussing the state of…
— Amit Bhatia
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Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long…
— Margaret Geller
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The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
— Christian Dior
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The next time you feel unworthy, inadequate or inferior, remember that these experiences have nothing to do with humbleness, any more than lowering yourself to…
— Gary Zukav
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