Not Nearly Enough Quotes

#1. It wasn't enough, not nearly enough, but it was all there was.

Cassandra Clare

#2. It just seems to me there's enough pain in the world - and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you've had enough kidney stones, hot candle wax on the nipples seems less appealing.

Katherine Center

#3. I do not think reading the mystics would hurt you myself: you say you must avoid books which deal with 'feelings' - but the mystics don't deal with feelings but with love which is a very different thing. You have too many 'feelings,' but not nearly enough love.

Evelyn Underhill

#4. I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

Anne Rice

#5. I'd left behind a thousand tons of marble, I could have released sculptures, I could have released myself from the marble of myself. I'd experienced joy, but not nearly enough, could there be enough?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. Life's aim, if it has one, is to be always looking for temptations - and there are not nearly enough of them, I find. I sometimes pass the whole day without coming across a single one. It makes one so nervous about the future.

Gyles Brandreth

#7. That's the funny thing about life. We're rarely aware of the bullets we dodge. The just-misses. The almost-never-happeneds. We spend so much time worrying about how the future is going to play out and not nearly enough time admiring the precious perfection of the present.

Lauren Miller

#8. A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough.

Lisa Kleypas

#9. 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

#10. There are not nearly enough distractions and it can all get too bloody silent, which leaves room for dangerous things, like thinking. I

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#11. But it isn't a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.

Patrick Rothfuss

#12. Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.

Simone Weil

#14. The problem with our society is that our values aren't in the right place. There's an awful lot of bleeding and naked bodies on prime-time networks, but not nearly enough cable television on public programming.

Bauvard

#15. I smell fear," he said with a quiet intensity. "But not nearly enough.

Neal Shusterman

#16. A girl
with eyes
like forever
and a mouth
that makes forever
not nearly long enough.

Kirk Diedrich

#17. Whatever fantasy I had in my head of what Wolfboy looks like, it's now clear I haven't been fantasising hard enough, not nearly.

Leanne Hall

#18. I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. Three years was more than enough time to decide whether or not we were right for each other. Thing is, I didn't need three years. I don't even think I needed three more days.
Could any Seychelles sunset be nearly as beautiful as him?

Adrienne Wilder

#20. I'm not nearly young enough to know everything

Oscar Wilde

#21. Her expression falls slightly as she senses that my walls are up and she's not nearly strong enough to climb over. Not even today when she is leukaemia's version of Superwoman.

Sarah Wylie

#22. Beautiful, Lili. I love that word, but it's not enough for you. Not nearly.

Kit Rocha

#23. Forever is not nearly long enough,

Becca Ritchie

#24. Unfortunately, the current pace of progress is not nearly rapid enough, with many rich industrialised countries being slow to make the transition to cleaner and more efficient forms of economic growth.

Nicholas Stern

#25. I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

Mary Karr

#26. Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

Eugene Kennedy

#27. In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

Robert Fogel

#28. 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

#29. One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art ... curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Carl Van Vechten

#30. Well, well; I'm starting to see what a bad, little thing you truly are, and I wonder if making you recreate your deviant act will not be nearly enough of a punishment.

J.P. Philips

#31. Do you like Magda too?" His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. "She seems pleasant enough when she's not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn't she?" He

Dorothy Gilman

#32. I was good at math, math was my thing - but I was not nearly good enough to be an astrophysicist. I was way outta my league. I realized this very quickly.

Sam Trammell

#33. Their scepticism about values is on the surface: it is for use on other people's values; about the values current in their own set they are not nearly sceptical enough.

C.S. Lewis

#34. The death toll is not nearly high enough ... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Christopher Hitchens

#35. This is the planet teeming, this place we've come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

Christopher Cokinos

#36. People don't practice their smiles nearly enough, so when they most need to look happy they're not fooling anyone.

Chuck Palahniuk

#37. Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men.

Brian O'Driscoll

#38. Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.

Angie Thomas

#39. If you take care of yourself, 60 is nothing for women these days. In today's world you can be the kind of woman you want to be ... Of course, I've aged a bit in the face, but not enough to worry about it. I've common sense enough to know that if I'm nearly 70 something has to give.

Tina Turner

#40. I'm wise enough to realize that I'm not nearly wise enough.

Eric Vance Walton

#41. We are going to see a tremendous number of health professionals retire over the next 8-10 years. We are not doing nearly enough to deal with this problem.

Dave Obey

#42. Attacking the person instead of the argument is condemned in logic, widespread in physics, and not used nearly enough in humanism.

Bauvard

#43. It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which--ironically enough--genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.

Theodore Dalrymple

#44. I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.

Meg Rosoff

#45. And power is a game of smoke and mirrors,' said her ladyship, reaching for the wine. 'Oddly enough, Commander Vimes reminds me of that nearly every day. No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that. Yes?

Terry Pratchett

#46. I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She would'nt do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end.

Jennifer Crusie

#47. Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Anna Quindlen

#48. There are those who condemn five in midfield as a negative tactic, but when a side's centre-backs are as hapless as Chris Perry and Hermann Hreidarsson were on Sunday, it is not nearly negative enough.

Matthew Engel

#49. It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

George Bernard Shaw

#50. Hugo is a raven,and, as such he knows many things. I, meanwhile, am Hodge Starkweathe, a professor of history, as such, I do not know nearly enough.

Cassandra Clare

#51. For I make others say what I cannot say so well, ... I do not count my borrowings, but, weight them ... They are all, or very nearly all, from such famous and ancient names that they seem to identify themselves enough without me.

Michel De Montaigne

#52. Distance is not for the fearful, it's for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those who know a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough

Meghan Daum

#53. I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

Kristen Bell

#54. Our society does not give nearly enough credit to business leaders who create jobs, behave ethically and provide products and services that enhance our lives.

Mark Skousen

#55. You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

Herbert Hoover

#56. His hands were achingly gentle as he lowered her to the platform, and lingered a second too long after her feet were firmly planted, or not nearly long enough.

Marissa Meyer

#57. The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Theodore Roosevelt

#58. Most startups are not nearly focussed enough. They work hard ... maybe, but they don't work hard on the right things.

Sam Altman

#59. The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

China Mieville