There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson
It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure. - Tom Robbins
There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. - Robert Heinlein
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. - Bede Griffiths
Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people. - Robert Higgs
I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it’s not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering. - Atul Gawande
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an adequate formula for prayer. 'I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet', is the only possible formula for worship. - Evelyn Underhill
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition. - Alexander Hodge
Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it. - James C. Dobson
A task which seems difficult, can be done with adequate training. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies. - Elizabeth Johnston
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character. - Henry David Thoreau
The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in a language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection. - C.S. Lewis