#sufficiently

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#enthusiastic #goes #meet #might #out

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order? ↗

— John W. Foster

#book #books #economy #except #exclusively

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#battle #contend #fighting #known #only

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#because #been #company #educated #i

I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here. ↗

— Max Baucus

#enough #fight #going #got #here

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it. ↗

— Asa Gray

#am #anyone #better #calling #convinced

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. ↗

— Paul Valery

#companion #created #feel #finding #gave

I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

#although #attempted #bringing #cartoon #cartoon characters

It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#anything #become #certainty #fortune #make

The private interest of the individual would not be sufficiently provided for by reasonable and cool self-love alone; therefore the appetites and passions are placed within as a guard and further security, without which it would not be taken due care of. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #care #cool #due #further