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“My name may have buoyancy enough to float upon the sea of time.”

May Enough Names Sea Floats Buoyancy

Author:Richard Watson Gilder

“We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.”

Enough Ought Hypocrisy Sincerity Hypocrite Hypocrit

Author:Thomas Fuller

“Life goes before we know what it is. / One fool is enough in any house. / Even God gets tired of too much hallelujah. / Take it easy and live long as brothers.”

Knows Long Enough House Easy Too Much Brother Fool Tired Hallelujah Take It Easy

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make.”

Knows May Ends Matter Done Enough Use Steps Virtue Mere Deeds Practicals Endeavor

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, "I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer." That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.”

“If you want to inspire confidence, give plenty of statistics. It does not matter that they should be accurate, or even intelligible, as long as there is enough of them.”

Ifs Want Giving Should Long Doe Matter Enough Inspire Plenty Statistics Accurate

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“I remember a passage in Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield," which he was afterwards fool enough to expunge: "I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.”

Men Enough Remember Fool Passages Zeal Zealous Vicars

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“Joy, happiness ... we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections ... to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness to some extent, isolates.”

Thinking Way Humans Has Beens Matter Enough Pain Joy Humanity Force Causes Human Beings Draws Happenings Connections Significant Joy Happiness Enough Pain

Book:Recovering: A Journal

Source: Recovering: A Journal

“It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labour of the day is gone”

Wells Enough Moments Feelings Past Sleep Gone Bed Tired Labour Delightful Delicious Limbs Posture

Book:The Indicator

Source: The Indicator

“There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.”

People Needs Enough Shows Attention Laughing Doubt Please No Doubt Approval Show Business Vessel Lure Enough Love

Author:Dennis Miller

“Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will be still enough to listen. "You have to count on living every single day in a way YOU believe will make YOU feel good about YOUR life," actress Jane Seymour suggests, "so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content.”

Ifs Way Feels Believe Stills Soul Enough Today Speak Sun Tomorrow Everyday Actresses Feel Good Your Soul Cherish Jane Risen Epiphany Make You Feel Good

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Almost everyone does just enough to get by. Those who achieve spectacular success also do enough to get by; then they add a little bit of extra effort. That little bit of extra effort makes an enormous difference.”

Littles Doe Enough Bits Differences Effort Achieve Little Bit Add Enormous Extras Spectacular Extra Effort

Author:Ralph Marston

“Enough of Art. It's Art that kills us. People no longer want to do painting: they make art.”

People Want Art Enough Painting

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "Isnt that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"”

Long Enough Beautiful Beauty Something Beautiful

Author:Alice Freeman Palmer

“There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.”

Self Enough Happens Moving Figures Periods Accomplish Cures Over It Get Over Keep Moving Loathing Self Loathing

Author:Conan O'Brien

“There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.”

Enough Truth Religion Society Tolerance Justify Persecution

Author:John Milton

“Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.”

Long Enough Hours Longing Forgotten Gestures Fleeting Afar

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.”

May Enough Faith Endure Simplicity Have Faith

Book:Letters to a Young Poet

Source: Letters to a Young Poet

“I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.”

Long Enough Christian Hate Christianity Criticism Hatred Hostility Unprepared

Author:William J. Clinton

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.”

Men Giving Littles Enough Fingers Gender Rope Wraps

Author:Diane Ackerman

“When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.”

Thinking Giving Writing Enough Cutting Rework

Author:Ray Bradbury

“A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.”

Littles Two Enough Three Secret Too Much Secrecy

Author:James Howell

“If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.”

Ifs Trying Littles Enough Stuff Pieces Feet New York Paper Good Enough Sticky Old New York

Book:41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

Source: 41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition

“The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?”

Enough Facts Fear Inspire Pages Terror Be Good Good Enough Blank Blank Pages

Book:Margaret Atwood: Conversations

Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations

“An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.”

Two Enough Hours Masters Artistic Batteries

Author:James Dean

“Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of the church, and numbers die of it; though because it is a subtle and inward evil, it be little perceived. It is to be feared there are many sick of it, that look well and comely in God's outward worship, and they may pass well in good weather, in times of peace; but days of adversity are days of trial.”

Wells Looks May Littles Enough Dies Evil Church Numbers Worship Sick Adversity Trials Weather Chiefs Hypocrisy Subtle Inward Request Mischief Malady Good Weather

Author:Joseph Hall

“Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.”

Long Enough Play Bigs Today Issues Length Massive Dominant Augusta

Author:Jack Nicklaus

“Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.”

Needs Enough Earth House Water Everyday Clouds Wave Scent Aquariums Nocturnal

Author:Jean Cocteau

“Did you ever have something to say and feel as if the whole side of the wall wouldn't be big enough to say it on, and then sit down on the floor and try to get it onto a sheet of charcoal paper?”

Ifs Feels Trying Enough Whole Bigs Sides Wall Paper Sheets Charcoal

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.”

Ifs Way Giving Doe Enough Moments Helping Might Form Fall Girl Grows Growth Sun Air Flower Fairs Dust Decay Hammers Fetters Narcissus

Book:Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Essays and Letters Selected from the Writings of John Ruskin

“A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.”

World Long Enough Responsibility This World Lifetime

Book:Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I do not feel I have wisdom enough yet to love what is ugly.”

Feels Enough Wisdom Ugly

Author:Stendhal

“For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.”

People World Firsts Humans Enough Poverty Technology Economic Conditions Development Disease Capable First Time Currents Human Condition Integration Illiteracy Economic Integration

Author:Clare Short

“If you don't like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn't enough, change it. If something doesn't suit you, change it. If something doesn't please you, change it. You don't ever have to be the same after today. If you don't like your present address change it - you're not a tree!”

Ifs Enough Today Change Tree Like You Please Suits Addresses Suits You

Author:Jim Rohn

“God, provide me with enough sustenance that my family is taken care of, that neither I remain hungry, nor does my guest go unfed.”

Doe Enough Care Taken My Family Hungry Guests Sustenance God Provides

Author:Kabir

“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Heart Enough Earth White Poor Sea Paper Ink

Author:John Lyly

“Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.”

Long Enough Forever Being True

Book:The Truth: Stage Adaptation

Source: The Truth: Stage Adaptation

“for Christ's sake, were the mountains blue, then chuck on some blue and don't go telling me that it was a blue a bit like this or like that, it was blue wasn't it? Good - make them blue and that's enough!”

Enough Bits Christ Mountain Perfection Blue Sake Chuck

Author:Paul Gauguin

“It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.”

Enough Strong Solitude Endure Useless Advise Strong Enough

Author:Paul Gauguin

“We are simple-minded enough to think that if we were saying something we would use words. We are rather doing something. The meaning of what we do is determined by each one who sees and hears it.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Use Simple Determined

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.”

Trying Looks Enough Water Clear Wonderful Paint Bottom Insane Grass Application Clear Water

Author:Claude Monet

“I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same.”

Should Enough Contentment

Author:Claude Monet

“It's enough to drive you crazy, trying to depict the weather, the atmosphere, the ambience.”

Trying Enough Crazy Difficulty Weather Atmosphere Ambience

Author:Claude Monet

“Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.”

Hard Enough Trouble Mediocrity Mediocre

Book:Monet

Source: Monet

“I know well enough in advance that you'll find my paintings perfect. I know that if they are exhibited they'll be a great success, but I couldn't be more indifferent to it since I know they are bad, I'm certain of it.”

Ifs Knows Wells Enough Certain Perfect Painting Perfection Indifferent Great Success

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!”

Enough Bigs Water Car Tables Winter Setting Opening Settings Seats Thick Locks Sheets Gloves Passengers Palette Containers Passenger Seat

Author:Elizabeth Janeway

“I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.”

Want Enough Running Fronts Lucky Projects Blank Canvas Blank Canvas Running Out Of Time

Author:George Lucas

“To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.”

Giving Mind Enough Body Earth Rooms Planets Variety Evolve Mind And Body Genome

Book:The Sun, the Genome & the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

Source: The Sun, the Genome & the Internet: Tools of Scientific Revolutions

“Your Dollar is your only Word, / The wrath of it your only fear. / You build it altars tall enough / To make you see, but your are blind; / You cannot leave it long enough / To look before you or behind.”

Looks Long Enough Behinds Blind Dollars Tall Wrath Altars Arlington

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems