Top 100 Suffice Quotes
#1. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
John Green
#2. Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind and that will suffice.
Joseph Murphy
#3. The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.
Billy Graham
#5. A bit of mist and light suffice for life to overpower nothingness. A bit of hope and time suffice for you to cross the mountain trails of myth; you were spared the fate of your ancestors. So borrow the wisdom of the anemones and say: Nothingness does not concern me, even if death besieges me.
Mahmoud Darwish
#6. Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.
Albert Camus
#7. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.
Ronald Fisher
#8. Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.
David Allen
#9. What!' you say, 'will not all the sufferings of Israel through all these centuries suffice? Is there a yet future baptism of fire, through which they must pass?' Yes, this is clear.
Dalton Lifsey
#10. If knowing the truth is sufficient for you, then practice the art of philosophy. If only living the truth will suffice, then practice the art of love through your mind, your emotions, and your body.
David Deida
#11. I would have done anything for an old fashioned phone right about now. Instead I have to suffice with pushing the End Call button really hard
Melissa Pearl
#14. Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
Immanuel Kant
#15. The perfectly measured burr of a dispassionate detective had suddenly changed into the explosive boom of a take-no-shit street cop.
Suffice it to say, I froze.
Cleo Coyle
#17. The world, however bleak I have found it in the last few weeks, must nonetheless be formed of goodness, if but a few moments in Nature's company may suffice to renew one's health and mental aspect.
Stephanie Barron
#18. Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.
Leonhard Euler
#19. Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
#20. Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors ... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.
Vincent Van Gogh
#21. A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.
Albert Camus
#22. A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
Isaac Newton
#23. Odd, some might think. Why someone would need to travel so far to find oneself. Surely a look in the mirror would suffice, and wouldn't that be cheaper too? But the mirror lies, and the eyes that do the looking conspire too.
Farish A. Noor
#24. All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
Henry David Thoreau
#25. For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.
Michio Kaku
#26. No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.
Lord Byron
#27. It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#28. The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#29. If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of any one, be assured that you have ruined your scheme of life. Be contented, then, in everything, with being a philosopher; and if you with to seem so likewise to any one, appear so to yourself, and it will suffice you.
Epictetus
#30. He feared that principle, active principle, had been wanting; that they had never been properly taught to govern their inclinations and tempers by that sense of duty which can alone suffice. They had been instructed theoretically in their religion, but never required to bring it into daily practice.
Jane Austen
#31. Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.
Jo Brand
#32. The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
A. C. Bradley
#33. For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade.
Noam Chomsky
#34. Astronautics, strictly speaking, will be concerned with voyages to other stars. Remarkably enough, to achieve such feats, we might not even have to leave the earth. It would suffice to accelerate the sun itself to a very high speed and let it drag all its planets with it.
Fritz Zwicky
#35. Suffice it to say, during the whole long day I came not to the conclusion, even once, that the southern slave, fed, clothed, whipped and protected by his master, is happier than the free colored citizen of the North. To that conclusion I have never since arrived.
Solomon Northup
#36. I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity.
Victor Hugo
#37. I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#38. We now live in an age when parents praise every child as a genius. And here's my mother, figuring "alert" ought to suffice as a compliment.
Randy Pausch
#39. A simple thank you for saving my life would suffice. I don't need for you to carry me off to your bed to show your gratitude.
Courtney Cole
#40. Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.
Galileo Galilei
#41. For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.
Thomas Aquinas
#42. There is a wrong way to look for advice,
and there is a right way that will suffice.
Seek truth and all will be alright,
not what you want to hear,
not what you want to be right.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#43. Better if you don't. Suffice it to say '123kitty' does not a strong password make. - House Rules
Chloe Neill
#44. It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#45. Hugh had led men into battle with success and was on reasonably good terms with the king, though they would never be intimates; in any case, his father had been so close to his king that this would probably have to suffice for whole generations of Dipensers.
Susan Higginbotham
#46. As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.
Michel De Montaigne
#47. I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!
Teresa Of Avila
#48. Suffice it to say, every actor works differently. Laurence Olivier would put on his costume and when the wardrobe was right, he was in character. That sounds superficial, but it's true, and look at the results.
Michael Mann
#49. Friends create the world anew each day.
Without their loving care, courage would not
suffice to keep heartsstrong for life.
Helen Keller
#50. You make the decision to love everyday, whether you feel the magic or not. It's the decision that creates perseverance, not the feeling of love in itself, because sometimes, butterflies do not suffice
Ufuoma Apoki
#51. I grew up in Washington, D.C. Suffice to say, it was not a garden spot.
Jonathan Banks
#52. Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.
Franco Santoro
#53. Such a small question, little mouse. Why. Yet, such a large answer. Suffice it to say that the gods are at war. And when the gods make war, it's we little mice who pay the price."
~Dal Durvaas, The Living Gods
W.M. Driscoll
#54. Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. Wilson
#55. If words suffice not, blows must follow.
Aesop
#56. I have this vision: That I would finally come and find you. Scattered pieces of distance would not stand in my way. Not needing words; the barest of glimpses would suffice for you and me.
Franz Kafka
#57. If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
Thomas Jefferson
#58. Loud, stupid and overeating will suffice as long as we also have the funny, the fierce and the intellectual
Denis Leary
#59. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats
#60. interests of mankind as a whole, but they do not suffice to determine political action. Perhaps they will do so at
Anonymous
#61. Suffice it to say, there are some very big ideas in Prometheus and, therefore, it covers a very vast expanse of time.
Damon Lindelof
#62. A revolution is called for, certainly. But not a political, an economic, or even a technical revolution. We have had enough experience of these during the past century to know that a purely external approach will not suffice. What I propose is a spiritual revolution.
Dalai Lama XIV
#63. As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek.
Eric Ries
#64. This is human nature: to find a morality that is comfortable and convenient and let it suffice for holiness. But it is not. So you ride your bike to work, or drive a hybrid car - but
John Eldredge
#65. If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation.
Albert Camus
#66. I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.
Bobby Darin
#67. In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.
Alice B. Toklas
#68. ... suffice to say, joy is where you find it- usually on the shelf right next to sadness.
Ingrid Schaffner
#69. To get into just those situations where sham virtues will not suffice, but rather where, as with the ropedancer on his rope, one either falls or stands
or gets down.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#70. A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.
E.W. Howe
#71. Suffice it to say, if one hopes to live in a world of wonders, he had better locate himself in a place where wondrous stories abound.
Jonathan Auxier
#72. The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer, I know they are very well where they are, I know they suffice for those who belong to them.
Walt Whitman
#73. When it comes to underwear, there's nothing worse than a visible panty line. Sometimes it seems like nobody knows that seamless underwear exists. But Calvin Klein makes them. Commando makes them. Hanky Panky makes them. You don't need a drawer full; a few pairs will suffice.
Brad Goreski
#74. My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.
Sarah Dessen
#75. A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#76. In these fits of sad regret from which the latter years of few reflecting men can be free, religion would suffice to comfort him. Yes, religion could console him for the loss of any worldly good.
Anthony Trollope
#77. The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.
William Gilmore Simms
#78. The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
#79. Then he should remember that this is holy business. No careless or casual dealings will suffice.
A.W. Tozer
#80. TO A CHILD, BEHELD IN SUMMER RAIMENT
Little girl, one lesser garment
will suffice to clothe your crotch,
Hide that undiscovered cavern
Where old Time will wind his watch.
William Gaddis
#81. If we can no longer believe in heavenly hierarchies, extraterrestrial hierarchies will suffice.
Brad Steiger
#82. My name is Darrow, leader of House Mars. I'm here to meet with your Primus, if you have one. If you don't, your leader will suffice. And if you don't have one of those either, take me to whoever has the biggest balls.
Silence.
Pierce Brown
#83. During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.
H.L. Mencken
#84. Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a finger
that would suffice for my eternity!
Victor Hugo
#85. This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene
a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
Andre Gide
#86. Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.
Alphonse De Lamartine
#87. It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one.
Antoine Lavoisier
#88. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#89. When one is content, little will suffice. But without contentment, nothing suffices.
Hamza Yusuf
#90. Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts, namely, that the mind is One, and that nature is its correlative, history isto be read and written.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#91. My father referred to it as "the finest song ever written for fifteen fingers." He made me play it when I was getting too full of myself and felt I needed humbling. Suffice to say I practice it with fair regularity, sometimes more than once a day.
Patrick Rothfuss
#92. Never assume malice where stupidity will suffice.
V.A. Jeffrey
#93. It will not suffice to have customers that are merely satisfied. Customers that are unhappy and some that are merely satisfied switch. Profit comes from repeat customers - those that boast about the product or service.
W. Edwards Deming
#94. For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes.
Cesare Beccaria
#95. It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.
Dan Simmons
#96. Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up
thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.
Marshall McLuhan
#97. One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice.
Albert Camus
#98. If you are loved less, he is the Great Provider. If you are loved more but are still hungry, he is the only One who can suffice.
Kelly Minter
#99. What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning.
Carl Jung
#100. Amateurs believe their enthusiasm will suffice.
Mason Cooley
