Top 394 Inadequate Quotes & Sayings

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

It is not God's will that you limp along in life believing that you are inadequate.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Twenty per cent of American children grow up in poverty, and that means they get inadequate nutrition, inadequate health care, and because we have a very local education system, they get inadequate access to education. With those as a starting base, you perpetuate inequality. That's why, here in New York, Mayor de Blasio has made a big deal of trying to focus on preschool education, because by five years old, there are already huge differences. We've finally begun to recognize it.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Feeling inadequate is an occupational hazard of motherhood.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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.

There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

Yes, translation is by definition an inadequate substitute for being able to read a masterpiece in the original.

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

Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?

The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

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.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

I became interested in photography when I found my own sketching was inadequate.

Informed decision-making comes from a long tradition of guessing and then blaming others for inadequate results.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

A ball is like a very disciplined child. It does exactly what it is told to do. Great information, great direction and great results. Inadequate information leads to inadequate results.

I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies – unconscious strategies – to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too – sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling – and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person.

There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.

Telling the public, 'We'll get to it later,' is inadequate. That's what the federal government does.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I have not given any drawn or lost games, because I thought them inadequate to the purpose of the book.

The ballot box is a most inadequate mechanism of change.

Our fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.

Planning and preparations for Iraq after Saddam Hussein were wholly inadequate.

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

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

The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.

Inadequate nutrition can lead to terrible health consequences, both physical and emotional.

it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

I think anxiety is the nature of most environments today, and people feel inadequate when they are not able to cope with it.

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

I tell my mother I went to God in spite of my religious education. I feel that my religious education was inadequate, but that doesn't mean that Judaism was inadequate.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.

There are so many to pick from that any list that I give you will be inadequate.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Now? I'm just another female faking orgasms to make a man not feel so inadequate.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

Review your description of the world, what it is to be a woman, and see how inadequate it is.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Stories, like conjuring tricks, are invented because history is inadequate for our dreams.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

Even if I aspired to be in showbiz, I felt physically inadequate being compared to my parents.