Top 23 Sufficing Quotes
#1. When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
Aristotle.
#3. In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Tucker Carlson
#4. Oh, but nonsense, she thought; William must marry Lily. They have so many things in common. Lily is so fond of flowers. They are both cold and aloof and rather self-sufficing. She must arrange for them to take a long walk together.
Virginia Woolf
#5. I hated cranberry sauce, but for some reason my mom persisted in her lifelong belief that it was my very favorite food, even though every single Thanksgiving I politely declined to include it on my plate.
John Green
#6. The poise of a plant, the bended tree recovering itself from the strong wind, the vital resources of every vegetable and animal, are also demonstrations of the self-sufficing, and therefore self-relying soul. All history from its highest to its trivial passages is the various record of this power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato
#9. If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.
Monica Johnson
#11. The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing; and therefore he is like a part in relation to the whole.
Aristotle.
#12. However far back I go into my childhood, nothing seems to me more characteristic of, or more familiar in, my interior economy than the appetite or irresistible demand for some 'Unique all-sufficing and necessary reality.'
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#13. To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.
Victor Hugo
#14. No, I can't argue with them; they wear impenetrable armour, while I'm naked.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.
Sue Grafton
#16. And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much,
The self-sufficing power of solitude.
William Wordsworth
#17. And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.
Max Barry
#18. There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.
R. Scott Bakker
#19. It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.
Christine Baranski
#20. You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.
Karlie Kloss
#21. If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.
Cory Lidle
#22. I don't want this life to end," said Alexander. "The good, the bad, the everything, the very old, to ever end.
Paullina Simons
#23. Look if you like but you will have to leap. Yes, I've always known that; I just didn't know that I knew.
Frances Mayes
