Sufficient Quotes - Page 36

• The former stewardess glared at her ex-pilot husband as if he had been speaking, and thinking, in the absence of sufficient oxygen.

  John Irving

  Husband, Thinking, Oxygen

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.173, Random House

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• Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, Garden, Humanity

  Jorge Luis Borges, Donald A. Yates, James East Irby (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.70, New Directions Publishing

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• Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

  Ayn Rand

  Fighting, People, Enemy

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.329, Penguin

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• The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Boredom, Want, Absence

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• Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.

  Flann O'Brien

  Book, Eye, Expression

  Flann O'Brien (2000). “At Swim-two-birds”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.

  Tim O'Brien

  Fiction Stories, Fiction

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• I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

  Mark Twain

  Pain, Animal, Vegetarianism

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• If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Long, Joy, World

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jul 27, 2016

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• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Aim Of Life, Forget

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1231, Modern Library

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• We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Life, Positive, Leadership

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.55, Beacon Press

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• In the year 2006, a person can have sufficient intellectual and material resources to build a nuclear bomb and still believe that he will get seventy-two virgins in Paradise.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Years, Two

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

  Mark Twain

  Baby, Real, Differences

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.2171, GENERAL PRESS

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• Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

  John Green

  Home, Self, Long

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Views, Ministry

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• It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Circles, Ideas, Squares

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• Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.

  Dorothy Parker

  Drinking, Wine, Envy

  Dorothy Parker (1944). “Dorothy Parker”

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• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Taken, Alcohol, May

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• I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true.

  Maya Angelou

  Believe, Needs, Being True

  Maya Angelou (2011). “Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now”, p.25, Bantam

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  When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, God, Disappointment

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Every man's Reason is sufficient for his guidance, if used.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Guidance, Reason

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.357, Harvard University Press

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• The gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness. The Lord knows your circumstances and your challenges. He said to Paul and to all of us, 'My grace is sufficient for thee.' And like Paul we can answer: 'My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me'(2 Corinthinans 12:9)".

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Perfect, Grace

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• Believers should acknowledge and wrestle with doubts... It is no longer sufficient to hold beliefs just because you inherited them.

  Timothy Keller

  Faith, Doubt, Religion

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.18, Penguin

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• "Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?"
  "I - I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
  "Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."

  C. S. Lewis

  Kids, Thinking, Welcome

  "Prince Caspian" by C. S. Lewis, (Ch. 15), 1951.

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• If you take a man by surprise, and behave with sufficient arrogance, he will generally do what you ask. -Emerson

  Barbara Mertz

  Men, Arrogance, Surprise

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• Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Reform, Tasks, Would Be

  "La Loi (The Law)". Book by Frederic Bastiat, 1850.

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