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Inadequate Quotes

For the first time in my life, sitting there in the sound-proof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. Sylvia Plath
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk. Ursula K. Le Guin
I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see. Joan Didion
Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate. George Saunders
Larry David quote: "You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and..."
You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid. Larry David
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. John Major
The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolutio? In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. Joan Didion
Knowledge is just a commodity. It is acquired in order to be resold. All those who have grown out of going to school have to do their learning virtually in secret, for anyone who admits the he has still something to learn devalues himself as a man whose knowledge is inadequate. Bertolt Brecht
It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? Virginia Woolf
Spike Milligan quote: "With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off..."
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate. Spike Milligan
John Grisham quote: "I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of..."
I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know. John Grisham
I suppose all this sounds very crazy? all these terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken? only felt and endured. L. M. Montgomery
To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate. Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on. Muhammad Yunus
There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the world. There is no such thing as a dumb question. Carl Sagan
I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it. Albert Einstein

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