Inadequate Quotes

228 Inadequate quotes by 198 unique authors

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. — Wendell Berry
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. — John Grisham
I don't think much new ever happens. Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking… — George Saunders
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite… — Virginia Woolf
It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world… — Michel Houellebecq
the people who run our cities dont understand graffiti because they think nothing has the right to exist unless it makes a profit... the people… — Banksy
Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved;… — Salman Rushdie
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is… — Bede Griffiths
And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately… — Brennan Manning
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings. They see themselves… — Eldridge Cleaver
I am sorry the only outlet for her troubled mind was in clumsy foreplay with an inadequate partner." He threw the rest of her sandwich… — Jennifer Armintrout
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… — Adrienne Rich
I suppose all this sounds very crazy â€” all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
After it's all over, the early childhood, a chain of birthdays woven with candlelight, piles of presents, voices of relatives singing and praising your promise… — Virginia C. Andrews
Toad, with no one to check his statements or to criticize in an unfriendly spirit, rather let himself go. Indeed, much that he related belonged… — Kenneth Grahame

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