Perfectly Adequate Quotes

#1. There is very little point in trying to urge the world to mend its ways as long as that world is still convinced that its ways are perfectly adequate.

Edsger Dijkstra

#2. I know that's an endorsement I've been waiting for," Skye added. "Perfectly adequate in bed. They should make that into a T-shirt

Susan Mallery

#3. We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Edward De Bono

#4. Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

Bertrand Russell

#5. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

#6. I should never have made a good scientist, but I should have made a perfectly adequate one.

C.P. Snow

#7. I like to travel business or first class. I wouldn't go out of my way to pay through the nose if the particular airline had a perfectly adequate economy class - but I do like to be comfortable when traveling.

Hilary Devey

#8. You said he was a perfectly adequate lover."

"Perfectly adequate? I dont suppose I ever said that about you?" She only had to look and Logan and those rough hands to know he'd be a thoroughly, mind-blowingly, head-bangingly, DIRTY lover."

"I bloody hope not.

Amy Andrews

#9. Making my family laugh when I was little - it became an addiction. It was a kind of survival.

Sarah Silverman

#10. The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.

Mao Zedong

#11. Never be haughty to the humble or humble to the haughty.

Jefferson Davis

#12. I believe that everyone is destined for greatness, but most people aren't willing to pay the price it takes to get there.

Clifton Anderson

#13. He knew, unlike most reporters, how to use pauses and the absence of words as effectively as the words themselves.

David Halberstam

#14. Tom got to rattling off the pranks he and his school boy buddies pulled ... and what I saw wasn't an old man gone wistful but rather an old man still resonating to the glee of a young heart.

Michael Perry

#15. He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

Victor Hugo

#16. Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Jean Cocteau