Enough Quotes
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This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.
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A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.
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There's the belief that we can't be smart enough to write. And certainly censorship of women, too.
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Most of us expect too much from others and not enough from ourselves.
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
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If I see any injustice done, I have a big enough mouth and the position to open up about it.
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So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
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Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.
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In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
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It's not enough to be tolerant...now we're finally moving towards the idea of acceptance.
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Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
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I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
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Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.
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In fact, most of the time, people with similar information, similar beliefs and similar apparent choices will choose similar actions. So if you want to know why someone does what they do, start with what they know, what they believe and where they came from. Dismissing actions we don't admire merely because we don't care enough to have empathy is rarely going to help us make the change we seek. It doesn't help us understand, and it creates a gulf that drives us apart.
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Truth is, I think, if God just gave us our daily bread, many of us would be angry. 'That's all you're going to give me? You're just going to give me enough to sustain me for today? What about tomorrow or next year or 10, 20, 30 years from now? I want to know that I'm set up.' And yet Jesus says just pray for your daily provisions.
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If you are courageous enough to be still, you are a step closer to becoming empowered.
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Try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is.
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The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly - because if they don't speak fast enough, nobody will listen to them.
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All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.
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If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.
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And there's this place called college! I mean, they want you to care, dig it, care about this education trip, and they don't care enough themselves to make it as attractive as the crap game across the street!
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Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
