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Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. — Conrad Black

We are all too prone to judge - upon insufficient knowledge. — Rafael Sabatini

but the lead caravan carries an additional line of text: Because survival is insufficient. — Emily St. John Mandel

When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

Without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. — Elizabeth Bowen

I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid. — Joel Stein

Quality, it seems, is a necessary, but insufficient attribute for success. — Derek Thompson

Had their physical attractions proved insufficient because she had unconsciously asked more from them than they were able to give? — Josephine Tey

Venus, it turns out, is broiling hot. There are no swamps, no oil fields, no seltzer oceans. With insufficient data, it is easy to go wrong. — Carl Sagan

When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. — Emile Durkheim

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. — John Simon

Because survival is insufficient. — Emily St. John Mandel

Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem

It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. — Bruce Schneier

It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. — Mike Pence

America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. — James Dale Davidson

In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. — Samantha Power

You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. — Jane Austen

Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling. — Mark Rippetoe

This shame has nothing to do with He or She. It's the being mortal - how shall I say it? ... insufficient. — C.S. Lewis

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading. — Robert Aickman

Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. — Pope Leo XIII

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect. — Immanuel Kant

Next worst thing to unrequited Love, isn't it? Insufficient hate. — Thomas Pynchon

Survival is insufficient. — Emily St. John Mandel

If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence
and punishes those who do. — Peter Boghossian

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. — Samuel Butler

[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage. — Charles Bukowski

The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. — Isaac Asimov

To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. — Ihara Saikaku

Virtue is insufficient temptation. — George Bernard Shaw

Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning. — Chris Argyris

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel

I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools. — Pope Benedict XVI

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. — Steve Chabot

Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient. — Jan C. Ting

In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits. — Radhanath Swami

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. — William Kingdon Clifford

Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient — John Newman

Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. — Robert Frost

Love, is always insufficient, always a lie. Love, you are the clean shit of my soul. Stupid love, silly love. — William Kennedy

We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.' — Sandy Smith

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. — Learned Hand

If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable. — Seneca.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house. — Mark Lawrence

And insufficient — Holly Smale

There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions. — Jacque Fresco

No matter how great your wealth of knowledge may be, it is still insufficient — Sunday Adelaja

Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts. — Elizabeth Goudge

Peter Blood judged her- as we are all prone to do- upon insufficient knowledge. — Rafael Sabatini

50,000-63,000 individuals in the United States and 19,000-25,000 in the UK die prematurely from cancer annually due to insufficient vitamin D. — John Cannell

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. — Thomas Leonard

Doubleday's First Law, which states that if you throw a fastball with insufficient speed, someone will smack it out of the park with a stick. — Jim Bouton

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. — Sam Harris

And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have. — Stephen Dunn

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. — Konrad Lorenz

naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range. — David Bentley Hart

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. — George Santayana

An awareness had come over him that he wasn't going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so he slept. — Anne Rice

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. — Harry G. Frankfurt

Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. — Horace

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself. — Jack McDevitt

Insufficient facts always invite danger. — Leonard Nimoy

Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally. — Henry Ford

I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. — Arthur Conan Doyle

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. — Niall Ferguson

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER. — Isaac Asimov

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. — Clement Freud

Self-love is beginning but others-love is the end. Self-love is important but insufficient. — Girdhar Joshi

All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. — Rita Mae Brown

Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. — Sun Tzu

Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda.
-George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987 — George F. Will

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. — Pope Benedict XVI

I have found God, but he is insufficient. — Henry Miller

Survival might be insufficient, she'd told Dieter in late-night arguments, but on the other hand, so was Shakespeare. — Emily St. John Mandel