Sufficient Quotes
892 Sufficient quotes by 701 unique authors
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The fates have informed me that your examination in June will concern the Orb, and I am anxious to give you sufficient practice. Hermione snorted.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Questions are usually more beautiful, more significant than their resolutions, which in fact never resolve them, are never sufficient to satisfy us, whereas from a…
— Robert Walser
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Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education,…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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I rarely dislike people for things they can't change, they usually give me sufficient cause to dislike them for other reasons.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made…
— Francoise Sagan
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Whether you believe in God or not does not matter so much, whether you believe in Buddha or not does not matter so much; as…
— Dalai Lama
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I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I…
— Howard Zinn
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To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that…
— Ayn Rand
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The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.
— Bram Stoker
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It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much…
— Golda Meir
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If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.
— C.S. Lewis
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Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these…
— Parker J. Palmer
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Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on…
— Veronica Roth
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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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To let the brain work without sufficient material is like racing an engine. It racks itself to pieces.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since…
— Andre Gide
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient.
— Veronica Roth
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Kami'd always retold her fairy tales to make the fair maidens braver and more self-sufficient, but she had never had any real objection to the…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. There's nothing…
— Veronica Roth
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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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