#adequacy

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil. ↗

— Mary Daly

#evil #front #god #ignorance #inadequacy

After a foreign invasion, there has to be a sort of feeling of musical inadequacy in the country. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#country #feeling #foreign #inadequacy #invasion

Adequacy is sufficient. ↗

— Adam Osborne

#sufficient

He had delusions of adequacy. ↗

— Walter Kerr

#delusions #had

It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution. ↗

— Ken Thompson

#criminal #hackers #inadequacy #only #prosecution

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#aspect #being #cerebral #cherished #comes

I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#language #spirituality #weakness #life

Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place. ↗

— Lish McBride

#high-school #inadequacy #life #lost #life

The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#inadequacy-of-words #language #literature #writing #literature

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. ↗

— William Faulkner

#salvation #sin #words #salvation