Quotes About Inadequacy

Sometimes I just feel so shut in, with all those people and they've all got something while I've got nothing.

I'm just one long disappointment.

L'arte è fatta per coloro che si sente indegno senza di essa.

Violence," came the retort, "is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last refuge—' '– of the incompetent.

A cada uno le llega el momento de alcanzar su nivel de incompetencia.

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world is a tuxedo and you're a pair of brown shoes?

life on Earth now. I don't always feel like being a beginner in a foreign language, continuously and mercilessly exposed to that special terror and despair, the deep inadequacy, that the unfamiliar syntax can engender.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count. I was very ill as a child and in and out of hospital. That sort of alienates you, and in my songs I put that to good use.

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

What if I can't ever be who you want me to be? What if I keep letting you down?

The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate.

My son, I am very disappointed in you," he said. "I never hear anything wrong said about you. You have proven yourself incapable of generating envy.

Our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy; our our assets, the challenge of responsibility. Our strengths or virtues can make us feel alone, alienated, cut off from the common herd, a target for envy and hostility, and our desire to belong can overcome any desire to actualise our highest potential.

If our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy, our assets pose the challenge of responsibility

You are partly crazy, and partly imbecile; a ruin, a failure, as almost everybody is,--though some in less degree, or less perceptibly, than their fellows.

Anastasia felt inadequate among the greats, and yet they parted to make sure she was in the midst of them, as an equal.

Jesus once again brought His abundant power to the rescue of human inadequacy, turning an impossible situation into an opportunity to strengthen the confidence of His believers.

Real life, our own life, is viewed next to the lives of celebrities as inadequate and inauthentic.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.