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Quotes About Enough

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough; and when you have enough, you have self-respect.
~ Gail Sheehy, Passages, 1976
Had David Hawthorne, by another name, achieved the immortality he'd paid for? Or had he died somewhere along the way? There was no answer. The most that could be said, at any moment, was that someone existed who knew – or believed – that they'd once been David Hawthorne. And so Peer had made the conscious decision to let that be enough.
~ Greg Egan
It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.
~ Gregory Corso
Sometimes the one life we are allowed is enough.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Gentle lady, do not sing Sad songs about the end of love; Lay aside sadness and sing How love that passes is enough. Sing about the long deep sleep Of lovers that are dead, and how In the grave all love shall sleep: Love is aweary now.
~ James Joyce
The distance between you and the door when you have had enough of your spouse is love.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
~ Kevin Bacon
The boys have all laid in enough footwear to last 'em ten years; and there's nothing doing in the shoe store but dolcy far nienty.
~ O. Henry
My library was dukedom large enough. William Shakespeare, The Tempest
~ Cornelia Funke
Whoever is not in his coffin and the dark grave, let him know he has enough.
~ Walt Whitman
This is what I remember: (i) the little pocket of space he creates for me, (ii) how it is enough, (iii) the sound of his voice,
~ Charles Yu
know, it's kinda nice to have some people in here who died of natural causes. Every once in a while, an inexplicable murder can brighten your day. But enough is enough, you know what I mean?
~ Chet Williamson
God creates only one world. Human beings have spoilt the Creator's work, the Son has redeemed the old creation through his Cross, the Spirit has sanctified it. This one world will be enough for God in eternity, and for us, whom he has created, redeemed, and sanctified, this God will be enough.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Upon my word, Emma, to hear you abusing the reason you have, is almost enough to make me think so too. Better be without sense than misapply it as you do.
~ Jane Austen
You have delighted us long enough.
~ Jane Austen
This was invitation enough.
~ Jane Austen
Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love;
~ Jane Austen
hearing it. This was invitation enough. Why, my dear, you
~ Jane Austen
Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.
~ Jane Austen
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
~ Roma Downey
If there is work there is warmth, that when a man has freedom of movement it is enough, for then his blood is hot too
~ John Fante
I know I didn't like that dress 'cause it didn't fit but I thought it was a great picture. We weren't the first band to do a picture in drag; The Rolling Stones were. If it was good enough for them then it had to be good enough for us.
~ Jimmy Carl Black
I want to swear to the king of the king of the kings it's enough. But this afternoon the magic has all run out.
~ Tim Tharp
Here's how the math works. You need to meet two criteria: First, you have to create enough each year that you can earn, on average, $100 profit from each true fan.
~ Timothy Ferriss