Top 592 Adequate Quotes & Sayings

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate.

There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country.

If the unborn is a human person, no justification for abortion is adequate.

Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. "This is adequate?" "Maybe I should have said it's a gracious plenty?" "A gracious plenty. I like that," he said.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago.

There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

Without an adequate answer to the question, "Why?" the price is always to high.

It seems very unfair that people cannot have adequate health care.

Technologically, modern man does everything he can do-he functions on this single boundary principle. Modern man, seeing himself as autonomous, with no personal-infinite God who has spoken, has no adequate universal to supply an adequate second boundary condition; and man being fallen is not only finite, but sinful. Thus man's pragmatically made choices have no reference point beyond human egotism. It is dog eat dog, man eat man, man eat nature.

My regular diet mostly comprises of high protein and adequate carbohydrates.

Ensuring Americans have access to adequate medical care should be a priority for all of us.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

In social media marketing, average is no longer adequate.

I have a simple principle for the conduct of life- never to resist an adequate temptation.

What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

Ordinary speciation remains fully adequate to explain the causes and phenomenology of punctuation.

The greatest danger to an adequate old-age security plan is rising prices. A rise of 2% a year in prices would cut the purchasing power of pensions about 45% in 30 years. The greatest danger of rising prices is from wages rising faster than output per man-hour.... Whether the nation succeeds in providing adequate security for retired workers depends in large measure upon the wage policies of trade unions.

I don't think that our problem, our jobs problem, is fundamentally a problem of trade. I think it has much more to do with the fact that we have not sufficiently educated our population. We have not got out of this great recession with adequate stimulus and adequate fiscal and monetary policies over all.

It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems.

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate policy for the conservation of gasoline and other petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for the development or use of other, less harmful forms of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.

You're just jealous." "Hardly. Been there, done you. Adequate, but unremarkable.

I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

If you've been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven't, none is adequate.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

He asked me if I had adequate health insurance.

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.

No goal, regardless of how small can be achieved without adequate training.

No one remembers the guy who goes out and does an adequate job.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

No pen can give an adequate description of the all-pervading corruption produced by slavery.

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

I've never began any important venture for which I felt adequate prepared

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

There are some things for which there is no apology, and on the question of slavery, there is no adequate apology for ripping people out of their homeland and bringing them here in chains. There is no adequate apology for the ongoing horrific legacy of racism.

We have to have an adequate number of taxes and an adequate amount of taxes.

One of the great misconceptions about spiritual growth that develops in a lot of churches is that information alone is adequate to produce transformed human beings. So if we want to have a church of spiritually mature people, let's just keep cramming more and more information into them... Information alone is not adequate for the transformation of the human personality.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

I think all of you know there is no adequate defense against massive nuclear attack.

There is no one label that could be attached to me that would be thought adequate.

Adequate defense has been the catchword of every militarist for centuries.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Disappointment requires adequate planning.

I don't think we're doing an adequate vetting process of those who are coming to our country.

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.