Quotes of Inadequate - somelinesforyou

“ If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting, and peace can never be secure. ”

- John Bright

“ People who are sensible about love are incapable of it. ”

- Douglas Yates

“ Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ Within you I lose myself... Without you I find myself Wanting to be lost again. ”

- Unknown

“ I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things. ”

- Archibishop of Canterbury

“ Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn. ”

- Albert Camus

“ He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, let him not know it, and he's not robbed at all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. ”

- Alexander Hamilton

“ We are all imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animal's incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. ”

- Georges Bataille

“ Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself. ”

- Horace

“ Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. ”

- Rabbi H. Schachtel

“ Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. ”

- Citium Zeno

“ You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not. ”

- Andy Rooney

“ Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general: for one link being wanting, the chain is defective. ”

- William Penn

“ There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. ”

- Pat Riley

“ Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer. ”

- Victoria de los Angeles

“ The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting. ”

- Ovid

“ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few. ”

- Harry Shearer

“ Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom. ”

- Democritus

“ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. - Salvor Hardin. ”

- Salvor Hardin

“ It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life. ”

- Cindy Crawford

“ I'm still a kid. I'm like six years old. But it's just a matter of wanting to get up, it's just a big journey. I felt like when I left home that I was on a journey, and I still am. ”

- Heath Ledger

“ I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. ”

- Dame Edith Sitwell

“ If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. ”

- Jack Kornfield

“ I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion. ”

- Vince Lombardi
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