Quotes on Enough

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.

I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son; she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content. One world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself, And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.

It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it.

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.

It may be enough to study history in all its nuance and ambiguity for its own sake. But there is no country free of the need to find new ways of reading the past as an inspiring way of thinking about everything else, including the present.

A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.