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It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials. — John Steinbeck

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant. — Sun Tzu

Marc wasn't good at this, so he figured killing those who were equally inadequate was a smart idea. — K.F. Breene

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. — Charles Babbage

Yesterday's grace is inadequate in the face of today's struggle. — Matt Chandler

No' seems such a flimsy and inadequate little word to express how very little interest I have in hearing you rambling on about that particular topic. — FayJay

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. — John Lydon

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation. — Charles Lindbergh

I tell her how sorry I am, and as I speak my words feel inadequate and pathetic. — Chris Salewicz

I have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate. — Mina Loy

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate. — Ben Crenshaw

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate. — Warren Farrell

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. — Beth Revis

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams. — Steven Millhauser

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short. — Malcolm Forbes

A teacher told my mother that I would never become successful, which illustrates the difficulty of long-run forecasting on inadequate data. — Clive Granger

The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate. — Jasmine Sandozz

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence. — Wendell Berry

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources. — Jurgen Habermas

They practice critical awareness by reality-checking the messages and expectations that tell us that being imperfect means being inadequate. — Brene Brown

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother. — Liz Smith

The final result of political action often, no regularly, stands in completely inadequate and often even paradoxical relation to its original meaning. — Max Weber

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate. — Maria Shriver

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. — Edna O'Brien

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. — Nam June Paik

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht

I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate. — Hugh Herr

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. — T. S. Eliot

But a man with a machine and inadequate culture - such as I was when I made my pond - is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold. — Wendell Berry

Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology. — Angela Carter

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art? — Susanne Katherina Langer

I had to settle for two of the most inadequate words in the English language, words to pale to express what I needed to say. Thank you. — Lilith Saintcrow

With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate. — Spike Milligan

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit. — Christian Dior

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate. — Lynn Coady

It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a 'superhero' or 'inadequate'.
Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks! — Sanjai Velayudhan

Seemed to myself to be dull, boring, inadequate, thick brained, unlit, unresponsive, chill skinned, bloodless, and sparrow drab. — Kay Redfield Jamison

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book. — Jose Raul Capablanca

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed. — Stanley Kunitz

It's great to feel happy. Go, do what makes you feel happy. Do it shabbily and get shallow happiness; Do it hard and feel the hardest happiness! — Israelmore Ayivor

Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life — Bertolt Brecht

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate. — Marc Andreessen

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently. — Stephen Stills

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood. — Harriet Lerner

When inadequate men assumed huge burdens, the outcome could only serve Despite. — Stephen R. Donaldson

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate. — Frederick Lenz

There is not one moment when that feeling of inadequate sorrow goes away. It just lessens and lessens, until it is mostly a memory of itself. — David Levithan

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. — Ansel Adams

He's hands-on to a degree that would make Hugh Hefner feel inadequate. — Ashlee Vance

Using volatility as a measure of risk is nuts. Risk to us is 1) the risk of permanent loss of capital, or 2) the risk of inadequate return. — Charlie Munger

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal. — Richard Livingstone

We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words. — John Wyndham

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve. — Baruch Spinoza

A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. — Vannevar Bush

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. — Sylvia Plath

It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate. — Louie Giglio

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is. — Frederick Lenz

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate. — Stanislav Grof

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. — Anthony Doerr

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything. — Jo Walton

When we have throat problems, it usually means we do not feel we have the right to do these things. We feel inadequate to stand up for ourselves. — Louise Hay

When you look at magazines, you feel so inadequate and so small and you feel really imperfect, when you're constantly seeing these images. — Mia Wasikowska

Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional. — Vicki Escarra

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. — Eric Bogosian

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate. — Alicia Keys

If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate. — Simone Weil

Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. — Alan D. Wolfelt

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. — Haim Ginott

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. — Patricia A. McKillip

Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate — Nick Hornby

Vote. Even if they are all hopelessly inadequate, pick the least terrible one and vote. My mother fought hard to get you that vote. — Rowan Coleman

A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being. — Merle Fossum

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

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. — John Ambrose Fleming

The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived. — Anthony Liccione

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. — Erika Slezak

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are. — Marianne Williamson

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. — Robert Fulghum

Everything I can say about what it means to lose, what it means to do without, the inadequate weight of the past, you already know. — Claire Vaye Watkins

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms. — David Lloyd-Jones

Inadequate love is love. Unrequited love is love. — Lan Samantha Chang

I didn't, because the idea of apologizing felt inadequate. I wasn't sure that I was ready to be forgiven. So I kept quiet and swallowed my guilt. — Penny Reid

Those we call saints rebelled against an outmoded and inadequate form of God on the basis of their new insights into divinity. — Rollo May

To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. — Martin Amis

In many industries federal regulation is the outgrowth of inadequate self-regulation on the part of the industry. — Judith C. Waller

the acquisition of knowledge without understanding is becoming increasingly inadequate — Knud Illeris

Topper was making her realise how calculatingly cruel and unsympathetic she was, how stubborn as a wife and inadequate as a friend. No — Thorne Smith

While he slept the world spun on, changed, situations altered and grew more complex, left him more inadequate to deal with them. — William Gay

When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations. — Israelmore Ayivor

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. — John Major

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate. — Jess C. Scott

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!. — Meg Ryan

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. — Walter Benjamin

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate. — John Dewey

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

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change. — Simone De Beauvoir

She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You'll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is. — Ann-Marie MacDonald