Adequate Quotes

Unless we have a Central Bank with adequate control of credit resources, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far reaching money panic in its history.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

In social media marketing, average is no longer adequate.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Health coverage for regular citizens isn't mandated by the Constitution, but we're obligated to provide adequate medical care for prisoners, whatever the cost.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

The promise of education reform can never be fulfilled without adequate funding, and by shortchanging our schools, President Bush is breaking his promise to our children.

Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate.

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

For the progress of humanity, work alone is not adequate, but the work should be associated with love, compassion, right conduct, truthfulness and sympathy.

As for those that carried out these attacks there are no adequate words of condemnation. Their barbarism will stand as their shame for all eternity.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.

To believe that if only we had this or that we would be happy, or to pursue any excessive desire, diverts us from seeing that happiness depends on an adequate self.

Those who possess adequate spiritual and mental resources will meet the heartaches or the happiness of each day with courage, calmness and capacity.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

If a child in its first thousand days - from conception to two years old - does not have adequate nutrition, the damage is irreversible.

Every state has not only the right but the duty to make adequate provision for its own defense in the way it thinks best, providing it does not do so at the expense of any other state.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

An adequate share of humor and laughter represents an essential part of the diet of the healthy person.

Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Our hunger signal will remain active until we take in an adequate supply of nourishment.

There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

The only justification for writing a novel is that it should be wonderful. Adequate is inadequate.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

We know the speaker has received adequate empathy when a. we sense a release of tension, or b. the flow of words comes to a halt.

Everyone knows [George W. Bush] has no clue, but no one there has the courage to say it. I mean, good gawd, the man is as he always has been: barely adequate.

At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.

Probably the most important single element that I found in my own marriage was a sense of humor. My wife had a delicious sense of humor, and I think I have an adequate one.

There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

I am confident Pakistani government will provide me with adequate security, unlike the government at the time that sabotaged my mother's security in Pakistan.

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

We are going to suspend the issuance of visas to any place where adequate screening cannot occur.

We need an adequate defense, but every arms dollar we spend above adequacy has a long-term weakening effect upon the nation and its security.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell