Adequate Quote by Edmund Wilson Download Open image “There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.” — Edmund Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adequate Demoralizing Income
If this country is ever demoralized, it will come from trying to live without work. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
No one wants to work for little money; otherwise, they would be living on the streets. — Samuel Eto'o Copy Share Image
What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Poverty is a result of lack of opportunity. Lack of opportunity is about being without power, without being in a position to make choices. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
If people support independently owned small businesses in their community, they can make a difference. — Kenneth Chenault Copy Share Image
by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“...an acquaintance with the great works of art and thought is the only real insurance against the barbarism of the time.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“She was one of those women whose features are not perfect and who in their moments of dimness may not seem even pretty, but… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is a proof of the divergence of the tendencies of the socialist and the bourgeois pictures of history—and from now on there will be two distinct historical cultures running side by side without ever really fusing—that people who have been brought up on the conventional version of history and know all about the Robespierrist Terror during the Great French… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth;… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since being shot by Booth was to have fallen into the hands of Carl Sandburg.” — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not… — Ernest Gold Copy Share
And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration… — Jon Corzine Copy Share Image
All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Conversation in its happiest development is a link, equally exquisite and adequate, between mind and mind, a system by which men approach one another with sympathy and enjoyment, a field for the finest amenities of civilization, for the keenest and most intelligent display of social activity. It is also our solace, our inspiration, and our most rational pleasure. It is… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share
A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until… — Dan Gelber Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share
You have no right to go before a public without an adequate technique, just because you feel. Anything feels - a leaf feels, a… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
