Sufficient Quotes

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

Husband and wife have so many interests in common that when they have jogged through the ups and downs of life a sufficient time, the leash which at first galled often grows easy and familiar.

A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

And, even if Affirmative Action survives, it is also clear that these policies are not themselves sufficient to close the educational and employment gaps that plague U.S. minorities.

God owns the truth. The issue is our ability to derive truth apart from God's sufficient Word.

China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.

A strong player, which has the sufficient critical mass, can withhold pressure better and create a more stable environment that benefits shareholders as well as employees.

In challenging a kzin, a simple scream of rage is sufficient. You scream and you leap.

Jesus has thrilled and satisfied the heart and mind of the Father for eternity. He must be all-sufficient for you.

Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success.

Mice deficient in this protein, called p11, display depression-like behaviors, while those with sufficient amounts behave as if they have been treated with antidepressants.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Much arrogance is necessary equipment for an artist, I think. Not sufficient, but necessary. It carries one across the gaps.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.

Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

I like women who are self-sufficient.

Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

The multitude . . . have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them. . . . It is not safe to trust to the virtue of any people.

There is a contagion in example which few men have sufficient force of mind to resist.

My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.

You could love your crazy people, even admire them, instead of resenting that they're not self-sufficient.

If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

A price on carbon sufficient to keep 80% of current reserves underground, rebated directly to citizens.

I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.

I do not, as you know, take sufficient interest in dress to be able to describe the new fashions. Dress is a bore.

Anything imagined can be made real ... given sufficient genius.

The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient.

Humans are not machines-we are something more. We have feeling and experience. Material comforts are not sufficient to satisfy us. We need something deeper-human affection.

Together we can make a difference and empower communities to be self sufficient.

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

[We need to ] select immigrants based on their likelihood of success in U.S. society and their ability to be financially self- sufficient.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

I learned very early on that it's necessary but not sufficient for scientists to go to school board meetings and say, 'We shouldn't be teaching creationism.' Being right doesn't mean it'll pass.

There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.

The vast majority of the students I have taught have become self-sufficient and confident individuals who enjoy their lives.