Be Enough Quotes

#1. When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#2. I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.

Stephen Chbosky

#3. I have so much love for you ... for us ... I am overcome with this feeling that just one life will not be enough to give to you ... and forever won't nearly be long enough to spend with you.

Steve Maraboli

#4. A glance at any human should be enough to dispel any notion that it is the work of an intelligent being.

John Gray

#5. For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Tammy Bruce

#6. I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

Maggie Smith

#7. You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months?

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. should be enough," said Robb. "You will have command of my rear guard, Lord Bolton. I mean to start for the Neck as soon as my uncle has been wedded and bedded. We're going home.

George R R Martin

#9. I don't wanna live a thousand years. If I just live through today, that'll be enough.

One Piece

#10. Why do you gotta be going somewhere? Seems like it should be enough that we had nachos. And we got meaningful jobs. We catch bad guys. If it wasn't for us, there'd be vampires and all kinds of shit running around loose.

Janet Evanovich

#11. But the man I met
he is the love I had wanted to reach long before I knew that he existed, and I think he will remain beyond my reach, but that I love him will be enough to keep me living.

Ayn Rand

#12. For the sincere student, it mustn't be enough to simply understand Jiu Jitsu. We must seek to understand ourselves.

Chris Matakas

#13. People convince themselves that they have been robbed when they have not, in fact, been robbed. Such thinking comes from a wretched allegiance to the notion of scarcity - from the belief that the world is a place of dearth, and that there will never be enough of anything to go around.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. I had wanted all of her just a moment ago, to consume her and to have her consume me in turn, and when we were fucking, sometimes it felt as if it would never be enough, as if I could never fuck hard enough to get as close as I needed.

Sierra Simone

#15. A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

Giorgio Morandi

#16. For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Sunday Adelaja

#17. Getting worried there might not be enough talent in America to acommodate all these singing shows.

Natasha Leggero

#18. There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

Steve Jobs

#19. For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.

George MacDonald

#20. Here in this room, with our bodies entwined, I felt that I could trust this fierce love that had shattered and rebuilt my life. But outside, the world was a cold and dangerous place. I didn't know if love would be enough.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#21. There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

Jamelia

#22. If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.

Rob Hopkins

#23. She was constantly surprising, infinitely complex. Unknowable. Unpredictable. I have never met anyone more fascinating in my life, and all the time in the world wouldn't be enough to ever know her.

Michelle Hodkin

#24. I'm increasingly attracted by the idea that there can be at least small pockets where life and character and beauty and meaning continue. If I could help protect one of those from destruction, maybe that would be enough. Maybe it would be more than most people do.

Paul Kingsnorth

#25. Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.

Harvey Dunn

#26. I wanna feel reckless
I wanna live it up, just because
I wanna feel weightless
Cause that would be enough

All Time Low

#27. I welcome the blizzard, with its ferocious winds and deep, drifting snow. This may be enough to keep the real wolves, also known as the Peacekeepers, from my door. A few days to think. To work out a plan. With Gale and Peeta and Haymitch all at hand. This blizzard is a gift.

Suzanne Collins

#28. If a scientist is reading a paper online and clicks through to purchase material, there's value there. It might be a business model; it might be enough to defray the cost of open access. I just want to create the infrastructure that makes movement and sharing easier.

John Wilbanks

#29. Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

Anna Nalick

#30. Most blogs have very low readership - perhaps only the blogger's mother or best friend reads them - but even writing for one person, compared to writing for nobody, seems to be enough to compel millions of people to blog.

Dan Ariely

#31. when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder,

Mason Currey

#32. All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Anna Quindlen

#33. That's what's so touching about weddings: Two people fall in love, and decide to see if their love might stand up over time, if there might be enough grace and forgiveness and memory lapses to help the whole shebang hang together.

Anne Lamott

#34. It could be enough, maybe, or at least a start, but the problem is that at night I tumble into dreams that aren't dreams at all. I tumble into memories and wake up aching for a dying world and a quiet, cold life that offered me nothing but sitting in a still room.

Elizabeth Scott

#35. An amount of bot tox the size of the dot over this i would be enough to easily kill ten people. Bot tox is a nerve agent. It is one hundred thousand times more toxic than Sarin, the nerve gas that the Aum Shinrikyo sect released in the Tokyo subway.

Richard Preston

#36. if you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else

Rupi Kaur

#37. It would be virtually impossible to finance wars without taxing the people, and the welfare system would be limited because there wouldn't be enough money in the bank to sustain it as it is, and that would help prices stay under control.

Ron Paul

#38. If your client has a problem with ethics, a signed contract may not be enough to protect you from expensive litigation.

Paul E. Casey

#39. I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Henry Rollins

#40. Enough can only be enough to those who believe it's enough.

Auliq Ice

#41. Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

Walter Cronkite

#42. Obviously, people with low or even moderate incomes could not afford such savings rates, and even diligent savings from their low wages would not be enough to pay for either retirement or healthcare.

William Greider

#43. I thought I had to prove myself with money and accomplishments. But those will always ring hollow. They will never be enough. I want to be somebody. Let me be your husband. Let me be the father of your child -of all your children.

Courtney Milan

#44. Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book's title is enough.

Sarah Manguso

#45. You are nothing like the others. You aren't like anyone I've ever met. I swear it. Now that I've had a taste of you, no one else will ever be enough for me. I need you...only you. Alex, you have my heart.

Brenda Huber

#46. The interest in Wisdom is fading. Soon there will not be enough left to support the aphorism, even though it tries to amuse by half-mocking the Wisdom it propounds.

Mason Cooley

#47. Sometimes placing our belief in something bigger than ourselves helps us get to a point where we can be enough on our own, magic or no magic.

Sara Raasch

#48. The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another ... .No. It wasn't dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

Lynn Margulis

#49. I know that unlike that night, tonight I won't kiss her. Or touch her. Or even see her up close.
Tonight, I'll listen. And that'll be enough.

Gayle Forman

#50. I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#51. Now and then may not be enough ... You have to enjoy it while you're still young. enjoy it to the fullest. You can use the memories of what you did to warm your body after you get old and can't do it anymore.

Haruki Murakami

#52. 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

#53. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#54. I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Tom Cruise

#55. Love me, Kat.
The words repeated in his brain like a song he was unable to find the end of.
I've loved ye since I dipped your braid in that wax. Dinna fret about making a child. Let me be enough for ye. Ye're enough for me.

Mia Marlowe

#56. You don't need any indictment in order to arrest someone; probable cause is sufficient to arrest civilians, so it must be enough to arrest police.

Al Sharpton

#57. I am sorry because there will never be enough time, not even in a hundred years from this day would be enough time for us to love

Celeste De Blasis

#58. There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness.

Kevin Rollins

#59. I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

Claire Cook

#60. Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

Duncan Bannatyne

#61. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough? The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#62. How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.

Charles Dickens

#63. If this world isn't good enough for us then an afterlife won't be enough ...

Fanny Howe

#64. She had picked up life where she had left off ... and hoped that would be enough to get the universe to politely overlook her.

Thomm Quackenbush

#65. You might get nothing out of it at all except a beautiful, long life where all you did was follow your gorgeous curiosity. And that should be enough too.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#66. You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.

Ed Begley Jr.

#67. Actually, you can be bad at something ... but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Sue Monk Kidd

#68. They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out.

David Stenn

#69. Love may not be enough to wake a child in the morning, dress him, and get him to school, then to feed him at night, bathe him, and put him to bed. Still, can any of us imagine a childhood without it?

Andrew Bridge

#70. Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, it's not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs.

Mick Cornett

#71. Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not just for entertaining us, although that would be enough.

Victoria Connelly

#72. I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said 'Are you going to help?' I said 'No, six should be enough.'

Les Dawson

#73. Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

Mark Twain

#74. We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough.

Mira Grant

#75. I can never be enough to someone who does not appreciate my efforts.
Neither could i ever be significant to someone who does not acknowledge my presence.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#76. How can you tell a man there's nothing to do? I can't imagine a situation in which there could ever be nothing to do! Do it for mankind and don't worry about the rest. There's so much to do that a lifetime won't be enough, if you look around attentively.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#77. It may be enough, however, to have it said that we survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets (include preachers, musicians, and blues singers).

Maya Angelou

#78. Could he love this girl the way she deserved? He could love her with everything that he was, and still it wouldn't be enough. He would fuck up somehow, because that is what he did.

Cherrie Lynn

#79. I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

Osamu Dazai

#80. It was the teaching itself that I loved. At least, I loved it back when I thought it would be enough to change things.

Brandon Sanderson

#81. We kept eating for a while and I though maybe this would be enough for one night. We'd moved into a very safe territiory. I could talk about desserts for hours! But then, without warrning, he started talking about his life again.

Kiera Cass

#82. Before I die, I want to...be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough.

Jennifer Niven

#83. You'd better, because if you've left him with anyone other than Mary fucking Poppins, there won't be enough left of you to fill a juice glass.

~Wraith

Larissa Ione

#84. And if revenge was all I had, then I was goddamned if it wouldn't be enough.

J.D. Jordan

#85. I'm yours." It was his turn to stop her words. "Just stay with me," he said. "In any way you want." "You deserve better." Rough, broken words. "There's no one better than you." "I'll be the best soldier you ever have," she repeated in a shattered whisper. "I know." It would have to be enough.

Nalini Singh

#86. I knew that no matter what I said, it would not be enough; when you're on the other side of the looking glass, nothing is as it seems.

Melanie Benjamin

#87. They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

Toby Jones

#88. In the heavens I see your eyes,
In your eyes I see the heavens.

Why look for another Moon or another Sun? -
What I see will always be enough for me.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#89. There was a time when I thought he could be everything, he could be enough. I thought that for years. I loved him completely. I still do. But I don't want this any longer.

Paula Hawkins

#90. As a mother, the one thing that always goes through your head is, You're never enough. You never can be enough - or do enough - for your kids. It's a never-ending issue for me.

Britney Spears

#91. Nothing in this world is stronger than love. It should always be enough, no matter what.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#92. The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.

John F. Kennedy

#93. Circumstantial evidence may not be enough to convict. But it's almost always enough to reveal the truth. Isn't it?

Chris Pavone

#94. Would it be enough to rock on a stormless sea with each our separate memories tuned to the state of the sinking sun?

Kristen Henderson

#95. He wanted her to want him. To need him as he needed her. And if God never saw fit to grant them a child, for him to be enough for her without one.

Mia Marlowe

#96. No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.

A.J. Darkholme

#97. All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Naveen Jain

#98. Maybe that was the moment when things started to go wrong, the moment when I imagined us no longer a couple, but a family; and after that, once I had that picture in my head, just the two of us could never be enough.

Paula Hawkins

#99. Jesus has enough, is enough, and will be enough.

Louie Giglio

#100. If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Timothy Ferriss