Sufficiently Quotes
312 Sufficiently quotes by 261 unique authors
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
— Jane Austen
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There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings.…
— Aristotle
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. . . the fellow's got a bee in his bonnet. Thinks God's a secretion of the liver--all right once in a way, but there's…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate--that we could mold our lives into any form we pleased... I had overcome…
— Helen Keller
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests…
— Mark Helprin
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The franchise and the virus work on the same principle, what thrives in one place will thrive in another. You just have to find a…
— Neal Stephenson
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It has been discovered that with a dull urban population, all formed under a mechanical system of State education, a suggestion or command, however senseless…
— Hilaire Belloc
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I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not…
— Nicole Krauss
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...Men do not sufficiently realize that their future is in their own hands. Theirs is the task of determining first of all whether they want…
— Henri Bergson
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In a way, the world−view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the…
— George Orwell
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God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence enough so that…
— J.P. Moreland
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There was something stubborn in me that didn't want to lose weight to attract a man. If the right man came along, he'd be able…
— Edmund White
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I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they…
— Bruno Latour
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The universe danced towards life. Life was a remarkably common commodity. Anything sufficiently complicated seemed to get cut in for some, in the same way…
— Terry Pratchett
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I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
— Alexandre Dumas
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After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
— Leonard Cohen
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She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had…
— Dean Koontz
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Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.
— Martin Amis
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1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on…
— Franz Kafka
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When a man is sufficiently motivated, discipline will take care of itself.
— Albert Einstein
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Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us,…
— Alain de Botton
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