Adequate Quotes
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There is not adequate whistleblower protection.
Valerie Plame -
The truth is we tend to let people shuffle around from door to door because we haven't integrated, ... We have not been doing an adequate job for these people.
Bob Ross
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If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.
Lou Holtz -
The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.
Virginia Woolf -
Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.
William Griffith Thomas -
No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.
Taiichi Ohno -
Even a competent lawyer may not be able to mount an adequate defense against the state, with all its resources, if he has next to nothing for investigation and effectively works for starvation wages.
Anthony Lewis -
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
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The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this.
Jon Corzine -
Science doesn't deliver even that much "truth"; it delivers empirically adequate generalisations, and that is all we need.
John Wilkins -
For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.
Aristotle -
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.
C.P. Snow -
The best way for the Government to maintain its credit is to pay as it goes-not by resorting to loans, but by keeping out of debt-through an adequate income secured by a system of taxation, external or internal, or both.
William McKinley
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I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.
Max Lerner -
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey -
What storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.
Erica Jong -
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
Ezra Pound -
Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
L. Ron Hubbard -
The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
William James
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I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.
Barry Blitt -
To live effectively is to live with adequate information.
Norbert Wiener -
This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate.
Simone de Beauvoir -
When being is divorced from doing, pious thoughts become an adequate substitute for washing dirty feet.
Brennan Manning