Sufficient Quotes
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
Distance either of time or place is sufficient to reconcile weak minds to wonderful relations.
A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.
The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.
He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained
Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't have?
Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.
Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.
Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.
For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
The Physical Symbol System Hypothesis. A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?
I anticipate the Day when to command Respect in the remotest Regions it will be sufficient to say I am an American.
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.
Personally, I don't teach practices as such. The power of the teaching is sufficient without needing to go for any practice.
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.
The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.
Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.
For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.
I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece.
I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.
A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.
One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.
It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted to them on a proper basis.
On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.
I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.
There is no such thing as a list of reasons. There is either one sufficient reason or a list of excuses.
Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.
Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.
Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.
To a mind of sufficient intellectual power, the whole of mathematics would appear trivial, as trivial as the statement that a four-footed animal is an animal.