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Quotes About Inadequate

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.
~ Christian Dior
apparently there are some holes in it. It's like an incomplete deck of cards –
~ Unknown
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
~ John Major
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
~ Susanne Katherina Langer
La explicación histórica que hemos presentado hasta ahora indica que cualquier enfoque basado en el determinismo histórico (basado en geografía, cultura o incluso en otros factores históricos) es inadecuado. Las pequeñas diferencias y la casualidad no forman parte solamente
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
The historical account we have presented so far indicates that any approach based on historical determinism—based on geography, culture, or even other historical factors—is inadequate. Small differences and contingency are not just part of our theory; they are part of the shape of history.
~ Daron AcemoÄŸlu
Science, according to Kuhn, has not actually followed the classic myth of steady evolution of accumulating theories based on deeper and deeper probing of the evidence. Rather, science has sometimes made huge transitions as one paradigm, which may have stood for centuries, is found to be inadequate and crashes to the ground, to be replaced by another.
~ Christopher J.H. Wright
Well, like I say. That is your interpretation of events. I just recall a girl who was disappointed and pissed off because she wasn't going to get to do the things she wanted to do, and a brand-new husband left feeling a little inadequate and scared that the girl would rather leave him and find someone who did
~ Lisa Jewell
I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.
~ Lisa Kleypas
I always thought of myself as inadequate. Kids of divorced parents always feel that way - that, on some subconscious level, they're responsible.
~ Charlton Heston
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure, we ask ourselves 'who am I to be Briliant, Georgeous, Talented and Fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be.
~ Unknown Author
Pakistan without Ajmal is like car without engine
~ Sunil Gavaskar
James would have liked to contribute comfort of some kind, but he only had a gob-stopper in his pocket, coated with fluff, which seemed an inadequate offering.
~ Penelope Lively
Marx portrays religion as a response to the oppression and heartlessness of the world; but an inadequate response because instead of challenging the oppression itself, it merely numbs the pain.
~ Peter Singer
The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for the happenstance that seems of late only to promise death, mayhem, poverty, flood. And here you are, having spent all that time protecting your home from the oncoming elements only to find that it has been shored up with crackers.
~ David Rakoff
At least then, we have the satisfaction of a little short-term pleasure instead of a lifetime of feeling inadequate.
~ Zadie Smith
The fact that our traditional method of extracting doctrine from Scripture does not work well on narrative does not mean that Bible stories do not send clear messages. Instead, it suggests that the way we apply our traditional method of interpretation is inadequate because we are ignoring too much of God's Word.
~ Craig S. Keener
I propose that some of our health problems, as well as problems in other life areas, originate from receiving inadequate protection in utero, such as might occur if our mom didn't want us, wasn't loved by others, or didn't love herself.
~ Unknown
just as instinct may fail an animal under some shift of environmental conditions, so man's cultural beliefs may prove inadequate to meet a new situation, or, on an individual level, the confused mind may substitute, by some terrible alchemy, cruelty for love. The
~ Loren Eiseley
even magnificent frameworks can't save the day if those frameworks have been inadequately implemented.
~ Unknown
Whenever I fixate on techniques, or sink into guilt over my inadequate prayers, or turn away in disappointment when a prayer goes unanswered, I remind myself that prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.
~ Philip Yancey
We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.
~ Adrienne Rich
Why was it that the words with which we confronted death always sounded so inadequate, so blatantly false?
~ Donna Leon