What Is Enough Quotes

The bare fact that language consists of sounds which are mutually intelligible is enough of itself to show that its meaning depends upon connection with a shared experience.

When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

The province of the soul is large enough to fill up every cranny of your time, and leave you much to answer for if one wretch be damned by your neglect.

I'm 43 years old and I'm the healthiest candidate for the Presidency of the United States. You've travelled with me enough to know that I'm not going to die in office.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

Life will always change, and I'm always thinking about how to have a good-enough attitude to roll with the changes of life, of an ever-changing landscape.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually.

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us.

it was not enough to be the last guy she kissed. i wanted to be the last one she loved.

And okay, fair enough, but there is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.

When you’re as charming and physically attractive as myself, it’s easy enough to win over people you meet. But getting strangers to love you...now, that’s the trick.

And if I lost I would have gone back to 12 weeks of vacation, because I was successful enough that I was spending much more time on non-profit boards and traveling a lot.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

When time passes, it's the people who knew you whom you want to see; they're the ones you can talk to. When enough time passes, what's it matter what they did to you?

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

Creativity is not like the weather: You can do something about it. And you can measure it well enough to determine its effect on sales and profits.

We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch enough to seriously overburden our legal system.

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

One of the little-celebrated powers of Presidents (and other high government officials) is to listen to their critics with just enough sympathy to ensure their silence.

Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.

The world is awash in more debt than there is money enough in the world to liquidate it.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

I think it's not enough for us to extend the hand of love. I think it's important that that goes both ways. It's important also that we look at policies we need to change as well.

I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing.

It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.

I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

When we're talking about a trillion dollars of taxpayer money, "trust me" just isn't good enough.

I've seen enough killing in my life. I know how precious human life is and I don't need a lecture from you.

It's pretty clear we have enough Guard people in the United States, but are they capable of handling our oversees commitments as well? We need to figure out how that impacts our ability in Iraq.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

In the heart of the slaughterhouse -- always -- enough room to nourish the awe.

I care about facts the way I care about oxygen and imbibing enough water a day to live.

I do not want to leave in [U.S.] ... I cannot make that clear enough to immigration authorities who may be listening to this interview. I don't want to leave, so please don't make me.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

There aren't many fathers around here...If someone is old enough to father a child, he should be old enough to help bring it up.