#adequate

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#another #could #first #how #indeed

The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability. ↗

— Mercy Otis Warren

#acknowledged #adequate #against #british #colonies

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

#discharge #done #duty #employed #executed

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#because #captain #figured #first #haven

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#demoralizing #income #more #nothing #small

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate. ↗

— Christopher Hampton

#anything #arts #being #belief #devotes

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life. ↗

— John Hines

#death #engage #enter #fact #inescapable

The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#allow #citizens #enforcement #free #give

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West, so was my information inadequate to help them to victory, or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory? ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#did #failure #help #inadequate #information

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#against #am #flame #hasty #i