Insufficiency Quotes

29 quotes by 29 authors

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever. — Mignon McLaughlin
In general-like not just in fiction but in life-it doesn't work out well when someone imagines someone else as a manic pixie dream girl or… — John Green
For too long the development debate has ignored the fact that poverty tends to be characterized not only by material insufficiency but also by denial… — Kofi Annan
Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one's total… — Aberjhani
Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources… — Aung San Suu Kyi
An underpaid man is a customer reduced in purchasing power. He cannot buy. Business depression is caused by weakened purchasing power. Purchasing power is weakened… — Henry Ford
All men are, at times, influenced by inexplicable sentiments. Ideas haunt them in spite of all their efforts to discard them. Prepossessions are entertained, for… — Charles Brockden Brown
There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency. — Jeremy Collier
Intellect without humanity is not good enough...what the world is suffering from at the present time is not so much an overabundance of intellect as… — Ashley Montagu
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. — Alistair Begg
A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty… — Arthur W. Pink
Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life — Mario Vargas Llosa
Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape,… — Swami Vivekananda
General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect. — Alexis de Tocqueville
One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich. — Samuel Johnson
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange,… — Carlos Fuentes
My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony… — Albert Einstein
Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great… — Lucian Freud
Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet.… — Francesco Guicciardini
Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on… — Maimonides

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