Enough Quotes
Knowing what's enough, and what isn't.
This collection of enough quotes touches on the gap between clever ideas and real-world application in technical research, and the frustration of not being able to work fast enough to keep up with demand. One entry recalls a lucky, extended research collaboration. Related reflections continue in our Enough Time quotes.
I would seriously question whether anybody is really foolish enough to really say what they mean. Sometimes I think that civilization as we know it would kind of break down if we all were completely honest.
Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.
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Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly happy when we walk away. It doesn't feel like quite enough.
Being senior enough in the field, having enough solidity, I don't feel afraid of being marginalized.
For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as...
When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.
We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza. The Americans didn't stop with Hiroshima - the Japanese weren't surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too. There should be no electricity in Gaza, no gasoline or...
The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going.
Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
If I'm lucky enough to have the chance to play a character, I'm going to give it my all. Play my position and give it 100%.
When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.
The readership of Victorian novels, when they were published, was much less diverse. People were probably white, and had enough money to be literate. Very often, there are phrases in Italian, German and French that are left untranslated.
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones...
Saddam Hussein has set an example of defiance, especially against the first President Bush, that other Arab leaders cannot and should not emulate; the example leads only to empty gestures and developmental stagnation, both of which the Arab nations have...
My looks were good enough for what I needed in every possible way but not so much to be a burden.
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What do these "Enough" quotes cover?
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Another entry reflects on knowing when a long personal pursuit has run its course. See also Enough People quotes and Enough Money quotes.
