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Your skills are adequate, though you would be better served by keeping your mouth closed unless it's being used to please or swallow. — Judith James

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent. — Alan Huffman

Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse — Arnold J. Toynbee

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

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. — Rose George

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today. — John C. Maxwell

It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all. — Deb Caletti

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared — Sheldon B. Kopp

It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital. — Alan Greenspan

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. — Bertrand Russell

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller

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

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack. — George Wald

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. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

She already knew she would never build up an adequate immunity to his dimples. — Stephanie Evanovich

An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. — Benjamin Graham

Are the axioms of logic adequate to reality or are they a means and measure for us to create reality, the concept "reality", for ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training. — Taiichi Ohno

One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest. — James MacDonald

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate. — Greg Koukl

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

Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best. — Ira Glass

In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. — Benjamin Graham

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes. — Charlie Munger

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

If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins. — George R R Martin

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

No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies. — Elizabeth Johnston

Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is adequate or not. — Shunryu Suzuki

The natural object is always the adequate symbol. — Ezra Pound

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody. — R. Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. — Edmund Wilson

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. — Bede Griffiths

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires. — Wesley L. Duewel

When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist. — Mencius

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

For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. — Werner Herzog

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate. — Billie Jean King

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart. — Sebastian Barry

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

To live effectively is to live with adequate information. — Norbert Wiener

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us. — Dave Reichert

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. — Wilkie Collins

Mere adequacy is never adequate. — John Lanchester

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

She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute for talent... — W. Somerset Maugham

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

But, after all, no safeguards are adequate, unless the will to give effect to them fully is present. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer. — John Tukey

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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. — Kenneth Clark

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate. — Lou Holtz

But Keri, being loved enough is not adequate. Be loved more . . . make sure you are loved more than enough. — Samantha Christy

Eugenics is the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems. — Margaret Sanger

A person is an entity of a sort to which the only proper and adequate way to relate is love — Pope John Paul II

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,
namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought. — Julia Ward Howe

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. — Kenneth L. Pike

A day's pay for a day's work is more than adequate when both the work and the pay are appreciated as much as they are expected. — Cullen Hightower

People believe it because people are stupid. Apparently, that's adequate now. — A.S. King

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

Just as children need good nutrition and adequate sleep, they may very well need contact with nature. — Richard Louv

To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation. — George Washington

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate. — Peter Drucker

One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence — Bertrand Russell

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate. — Robert Robinson

Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet. — Jay Kordich

... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines. — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

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

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries. — Frank B. Kellogg

No linear indexing system is adequate to express the multi-dimensionality of knowledge," Dr. Waterhouse reminds him. — Neal Stephenson

Let no one rob me of a single day who is not going to make me an adequate return for such a loss. — Seneca.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. — Robert A. Heinlein

Years ago my friend Alan Groff shared this definition: "love is the accurate estimate and the adequate supply of another person's need. — Mark Batterson

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

It's adequate, Miss Clark. Though — Nora Roberts

Hotel Conundrum: The continental breakfast. What is it that makes continents so shitty at providing an adequate breakfast? — Demetri Martin

To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. — Bernard Iddings Bell

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. — William Westmoreland

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

War is just a racket ... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. — Smedley Butler

Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply. — Norman Borlaug

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

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

For the first rate poet, nothing short of a Queen or a Chimera is adequate for the powers of his praise. — Wyndham Lewis

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation. — Stephen Jay Gould

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable. — Aristotle.

The word 'sorry' is hardly adequate for my actions. — Liane Moriarty

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student. — Barry Sanders

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure. — Peter Drucker

Providing adequate representation even for defendants who appear guilty is the best way to protect those who are not. — Deborah L. Rhode

A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story? — James Hillman

I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one. — C.P. Snow

Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. — Charles Dickens

Sorry, no. I refuse to join an army which practices human sacrifice and has no adequate pension plan. — Toby Frost

Fear of failure impedes adequate self-identification — Sunday Adelaja

If we keep our eyes open and our hearts clear, we can realize that life gives us adequate opportunities to experience both love and hope — John Moriarty