Inadequate Quotes

228 Inadequate quotes by 198 unique authors

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. — Frederick Lenz
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. — Anthony Doerr
Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia,… — John F. Kennedy
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were… — Betty Friedan
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face… — Susan George
Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. — Haim Ginott
Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate… — Brian Greene
Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. — Stanislav Grof
There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the… — Harry Connick, Jr.
You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid. — Larry David
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the… — Richard P. Feynman
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our… — Christopher Hampton
Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate… — Herman Kahn
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. — Alicia Keys
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the… — Abraham Lincoln
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. — John Lydon
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs,… — Abraham Maslow
All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of… — Wilson Mizner

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