Top 100 Not Enough Sayings
#1. Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready.
Nhat Hanh
#2. The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
Michael Baumgartner
#3. Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
Douglas Horton
#4. It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.
Sophie Kinsella
#5. He is a man of intelligence, but to act sensibly, intelligence is not enough.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. You want to keep the severity of our environmental problems in mind enough to keep yourself motivated but not enough to paralyze you into depression.
Sara Gilbert
#7. A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#8. One of the many questions that have often bothered me is why women have been, and still are, thought to be so inferior to men. It's easy to say it's unfair, but that's not enough for me; I'd really like to know the reason for this great injustice!
Anne Frank
#9. Sometimes, a few minutes are enough to know anyone and sometimes a complete life is not enough.
Vinit K. Bansal
#10. A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.
[Alexander's tombstone epitaph]
Alexander The Great
#11. From the unlimited wellspring of energy that flows from our center, life situations cease to be "too much" or "not enough.
Heidi DuPree
#12. I think that focusing on the money, on the business, is not enough.
Sergei Bubka
#13. If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
A.J. Liebling
#14. It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
John Lewis
#15. We are superstitiously timid, I say, if whenever creatures threaten us or forcibly terrorize us we become as fearful as if they had some intrinsic power to harm us, cor might wound us inadvertently and accidentally, or there were not enough help in God against their harmful acts.
John Calvin
#16. Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.
Jim Trelease
#17. Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. We would have to march into Washington and sign the treaty in the White House.
Isoroku Yamamoto
#18. After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.
George W. Bush
#19. I figured we could get by on what we got. Not enough to make us happy, but enough to keep going.
Neil Gaiman
#20. I'm only human, she told herself. There's not enough room in my heart for everyone.
Tom Perrotta
#21. A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.
Simon Greenleaf
#22. That's been my fear all along. That I'm not enough, and I still don't trust at all that I am.
Michael Ian Black
#23. We are all sorry for something. It's what makes us human, says Seda. But sometimes empathy is not enough. Sometimes empathy needs to be followed by action.
Aline Ohanesian
#24. I've had four hundred years. Four hundred years of scraping by, and trying not to eat people. Four hundred years, and it's still not enough.
T.W. Brown
#25. What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.
William Ury
#26. I let her hold me for a long while. I do my best not to cry. My best is not enough.
Victoria Aveyard
#27. Miles later and the heat is just ferocious. Sunglasses and goggles are not enough for this glare. You need a welder's mask.
Robert M. Pirsig
#28. As I see it, the thing that hurt my putting most when it was bad, was thinking too much about how I was making the stroke and not enough about getting the ball in the hole.
Bobby Jones
#30. The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.
Terry Teachout
#31. It's not enough to use information for "something" - it needs to be immediate and important.
Timothy Ferriss
#32. It was one frayed rope thrown across the chasm between us. Not enough to get across, but maybe just enough to tell that it wasn't as wide as I'd originally thought.
Maggie Stiefvater
#33. It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.
Albert Low
#34. What do you say when you're not enough to make someone stay?
Katie Kacvinsky
#35. It's not enough to keep winning seconds and thirds. At some point, Ted Cruz has actually won on. [Marco] Rubio's got to actually win a state.
Joy-Ann Reid
#36. Jake, who is both fitter and more hedonistic than me, once told me what they say about martinis: "One's perfect. Two's too many. And three's not enough.
Julian Barnes
#37. In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
Tim Burton
#38. When advertisers ignore diversity, it is because they don't think the lives of others matter. There is not enough of a financial imperative for those lives to matter.
Roxane Gay
#39. It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.
Donald A. Norman
#40. Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove me wrong. You are the king of gods, king of stones and stars, king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#41. The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough.
Sarah Brady
#42. Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
Joseph Joubert
#43. There was not enough of the patient to go around, and specialists pushed forward in line with raw tempers and snapped at their colleagues in front to hurry up and give somebody else a chance.
Joseph Heller
#44. Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough
Joy Williams
#45. It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.
Michael Musto
#46. For men, women are their 'counter weights' and when that is not enough, their daughters are their 'counter weights.' One can't do without a counter weight. Otherwise, he will fall over.
Dada Bhagwan
#47. Well,' said Tiffany, 'there's too much to be done and not enough people to do it.' The smile that the kelda gave her was a strange one. The little woman said, 'Do ye let them try? Ye mustn't be afraid to ask for help. Pride is a good thing, my girl, but it will kill you in time.
Terry Pratchett
#48. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#49. It is not enough to make good laws;
they must be enforced.
It is not enough to denounce bad laws;
they must be changed.
The better the laws the more righteous the judgments.
The wiser the rulers are the more prosperous a nation.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#50. Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
Ron Brackin
#51. I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also work to make it happen.
M.B. Dallocchio
#53. Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.
Seth Klarman
#54. It is not enough to ask yourself, 'Does God's Word permit me to use these good things of the world?' You must also inquire, 'Will it serve the glory of God?'and, 'Will it edify my fellow Christians?'
Walter J Chantry
#55. It's no good to shoot a guy anymore. It's not enough.Nobody is throwing anybody off of buildings after seeing these movies, but they are smoking after seeing some good-looking celebrity smoke.
Chris Matthews
#56. I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from ... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.
Warren Buffett
#57. Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not.
Zoe Saldana
#58. O the joy of my spirit
it is uncaged
it darts like lightning!
It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time,
I will have thousands of globes and all time.
Walt Whitman
#59. To be good is not enough; a man must be good for something
Henry Ford
#61. O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.
Sara Teasdale
#62. Prayer and staying positive is certainly a good start toward a happier a life, but it is not enough. The way out of Egypt requires packing up, moving on and wandering around until you find Canaan.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Zachary Quinto
#64. Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.
Ira Glass
#65. Having a head is not enough, you must get ahead
Saji Ijiyemi
#67. Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.
Daniel Handler
#68. Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.
David S. Landes
#69. Politicians do nothing but ask of us, during every expiration of a legal statute, "a gesture of trust." But here trust is not enough; what's needed is an act of faith.
Indro Montanelli
#70. To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death always a step in advance. To spit on the past is not enough. To proclaim the future is not enough. One must act as if the past were dead and the future unrealizable.
Henry Miller
#71. What do you say when you are not enough to make someone stay.
Katie Kacvinsky
#72. Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe
#73. Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#74. I like chili, but not enough to discuss it with someone from Texas.
Calvin Trillin
#75. It's too much.
No. It's not enough.
B.B. Reid
#76. I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.
Melonie Diaz
#77. Staying alive is not enough to guarantee survival. Development is the best way to ensure survival.
Liu Cixin
#78. The abuse of power, Benton says. It all comes back to that. We want to be like God. If we can't create, we'll destroy, and once we've done it, once is not enough.
Patricia Cornwell
#79. To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.
Lauren Hutton
#80. It is not enough to be exceptionally mad, licentious and fanatical in order to win a great reputation; it is still necessary to arrive on the scene at the right time.
Voltaire
#81. Being prepared for a job is a good idea for the short term, but it is not enough for the long term.
Robert Kiyosaki
#82. ...simply being alive was not enough to be called living" -Kahlen
Kiera Cass
#84. I brought killer intensity to my workouts ... It's not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to it ... What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.
Lynn Jennings
#85. In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.
David Bellos
#86. For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
Matthew Arnold
#87. At some point you have to take what the world gives you, even if the world is not enough.
John A. Kelly Jr.
#88. Make it simple to last your whole life long. Don't worry that it's not enough for anyone else to hear. Just sing, sing a song
Karen Carpenter
#89. When the words not enough to describe how much you love ...
even you know she/he don't anything for you ...
you cant fall a sleep exactly like before's
-kuntal
Bob Marley
#90. Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.
Stuart J. Russell
#91. It is true that a writer writes first to please himself and that his own satisfaction with what he has done is perhaps his greatest satisfaction. But writing is a means of communication. It is not enough to speak; you must also be heard. The message must be received and understood.
Christopher Milne
#92. Remember that it is not enough to have everything around you beautiful, remember that there must also be change and flux, because it is through change that we pretend that we can make decisions, and keep our pride, and go on pretending that both change and choice exist.
Marian Engel
#93. Is it not enough to shine,
To know that friends are true?
That love is born of friendship,
And who you are is you?
Frederic M. Perrin
#94. What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is not enough.
Edouard Delacroix
#95. Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he'd worked hard to project a retiring asexuality. As far as his coworkers knew, he lived with only his books for company. Still, he relished her name in his mouth. "Regan.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#96. I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close.
Mark Andrus
#97. It's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.
Ed Stetzer
#99. There are some people men and women both who will never be happy no matter what the circumstances they find themselves. There's not enough money, no Castle grand enough, no life easy enough to content them.
Lynn Kurland
#100. To succeed in life, doing your best is not enough, you should also improve your best.
Mohith Agadi
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