Miserably Inadequate Quotes

#1. All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

Walter Benjamin

#2. Myth: Feeding the banking sector gobs of welfare cash will bring about a recovery. Fact: Our leaders are only dedicated to preserving power

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#3. It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.

Jane Hamilton

#4. Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'

Nigel Lythgoe

#5. Every person has a legacy. You may not know what your impact is, and it may not be something that you can write on your tombstone, but every person has an impact on this world.

Dara Horn

#6. Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

Mark Twain

#8. I have a hard time keeping a story straight when I tell the truth because when you start lying you have to remember what you said, and I'm not very good at that.

Lisa Vanderpump

#9. Journalists were among those who thought that way. Clarke Beach, for example, in a September 6 article for the local newspaper, the Star-Bulletin, wrote, "A Japanese attack on Hawaii is regarded as the most unlikely thing in the world, with one chance in a million of being successful.

Donald Stratton

#10. Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. We must find our way to a time when faith, without evidence, disgraces anyone who would claim it

Sam Harris

#12. The America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.

Mitt Romney

#13. He was not at all sure he was doing the right thing, but he was sure he was doing what he wanted to do

Milan Kundera