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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
Marc wasn't good at this, so he figured killing those who were equally inadequate was a smart idea.
— K.F. Breene
Yesterday's grace is inadequate in the face of today's struggle.
— Matt Chandler
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 have heard your reasons and regard them as unconvincing and inadequate.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
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
Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.
— Liz Smith
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.
— Israelmore Ayivor
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
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
