Adequate Quotes

In an adequate social order, the untalented should be able to acquire a sense of usefulness and of growth without interfering with the development of talent around them

Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

To carry adequate life insurance is a moral obligation incumbent upon the great majority of citizens.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

You're just jealous." "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.

It was while I was pastoring that I began to realize that pastors were not growing churches because they didn't understand leadership because they were not trained, adequate leaders.

Adequate control means that the successive acts are brought into a continuous order; each act not only meets its immediate stimulus but helps the acts which follow.

I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.

An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.

I just don't think the moon is going to be an adequate substitute for the fact that we haven't addressed ourselves to clearing up the slums.

Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns.

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

There seemed to be so much to say, but no words adequate to say it.

It is almost intrinsically impossible for ideas about how we are fooling ourselves to gain an adequate hearing. We are good enough at it to keep them nicely at bay.

To beauty, all is forgiven, even vulgarity. Intelligence no longer seems an adequate compensation for things.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Though the discoveries or acquisitions of man are not always adequate to the expectations of his pride, they are at least sufficient to animate his industry.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

Everything comes to us in fifteen-second sound bites and photo opportunities. All possibility for ambiguity - the most precious trait of any adequate analysis - is erased.

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt

The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.

Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification

Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it.

Adequate planning will rescue you from the shame of tomorrow