Quotes on Enough

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let_x000D_ _x000D_ me die, for I have lived long enough.

To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science. I have not possessed enough of the eagle in my character to make a direct flight to the loftiest altitudes in the social world; and I certainly never endeavored to reach those heights by using the creeping powers of the reptile, who in ascending, generally chooses the dirtiest path, because it is the easiest.

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Modern war appears as a struggle led by all the State apparatuses and their general staffs against all men old enough to bear arms.

It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. They do not know its horrors. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.

You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Do not ask yourself if your love is big enough, because love is neither big nor small, it is simply love.

On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently, smallpox. I am optimistic enough to believe that the next scourge to disappear will be large-scale warfare-killed by the existence and nonuse of nuclear weapons.

There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.

Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat.