To Be Enough Quotes

#1. The dam of tears broke again and I cried softly, grateful for the love I didn't deserve because the gift of me didn't seem to be enough.

Denise Grover Swank

#2. To tell the truth, it is regarding the physical side of marriage that I have always been apprehensive...There so seldom seems to be enough of it," said Miss Teatime.

Colin Watson

#3. There wasn't any food or heat, but we had light, and places to sit, and a complete lack of frightening murderers, and that turned out to be enough for now.

Karen Healey

#4. Clover City is the type of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems to be enough to keep us afloat.

Julie Murphy

#5. I'm not greedy. I have love, blue skies, and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it's everything in the world - and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more.

Penn Jillette

#6. If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

Richard Ford

#7. That meant we needed to play to our strengths, and our strengths came from lifelong training in shoving microphones at danger and demanding that it explain itself. It wasn't much. It was going to have to be enough.

Mira Grant

#8. She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone.

Kristin Hannah

#9. It's a difficult thing when you try and make a film of a book that you really love. You have about two hours to tell the story, and it's never going to be enough.

Keira Knightley

#10. Le me try to be enough for you.

Krista Ritchie

#11. Look to Jesus to be enough for you, and there will never, ever come a day when he is not enough.

Tim Chester

#12. Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women ... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world

Annie Laurie Gaylor

#13. The royalty take and take and it never seems to be enough for them. They steal girls to make their babies, boys to protect them, or seduce them, or serve them. But we are not objects. We are not the latest fashion or the most expensive prize. We are people. And I'm going to help make them see that.

Amy Ewing

#14. One picture will have to be enough.
Just like
one day
will have to be
enough.

Lisa Schroeder

#15. It will have to be enough," she whispered. And with that, Grace Cahill closed her eyes

Rick Riordan

#16. Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

Cy Young

#17. Those cloudy nights when the stars fail to appear, I miss them terribly. But I know in my heart they are still there and, sometimes knowing has to be enough

Barbara Lieberman

#18. He shook his head, a smile tugging at his lips. "Two hours isn't going to be enough time."
She grinned, rocking her hips. "We'd better make it count.

Lisa Kessler

#19. Once would have to be enough. Because a man like me could never have a second chance.

Pepper Winters

#20. It is wonderful to hear of the relief efforts that are finally coming to New Orleans and the rest of the region, but as well all know, it is simply not going to be enough.

Angelina Jolie

#21. That's the way it is with God, don't you reckon? He always around somewheres, if you can see His face or not. He's out there watching through the dark. Sometimes that's got to be enough, I suppose. Knowing He sees us even if we can't see Him back." -- Levi Snow

Jonathan Odell

#22. Ultimately people don't watch shows because of how realistic they are. They watch them because of the same dramatic elements that have always made stories interesting. And fundamentally if those elements don't work, no amount of reality is going to be enough to keep people watching a show.

Michael Loceff

#23. So then, give back to Caesar what is his, and give back to God what belongs to God. That is the zealot argument in its simplest, most concise form. And it seems to be enough for the authorities in Jerusalem to immediately label Jesus as lestes. A bandit. A zealot.

Reza Aslan

#24. Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Theodor W. Adorno

#25. I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

Elizabeth Scott

#26. On his character Dean in Blue Valentine: It's sad, because he just doesn't have any ambition outside of loving his wife and his daughter, which should be enough but doesn't seem to be enough in this case.

Ryan Gosling

#27. The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.

Jessica Valenti

#28. He was breathing a little faster himself, his heart pounding as he leaned in a tiny bit more. He hovered just shy of her lips before braving the final space between them and pressing his mouth to hers. He knew immediately from the first taste of her that one tiny kiss wasn't going to be enough.

Cat Johnson

#29. But I have learned over the years that all I can do is reach for something difficult - try to get the colors right and the negative space, the angle of the light. And if a few people can see it, that has to be enough.

Molly Gloss

#30. Cities have to realize that whatever the federal government is going to do, it's not going to be enough. And cities that proactively take control of their own quality of life initiatives are going to be the cities that ultimately attract the highly talented young people and create the jobs.

Mick Cornett

#31. We're going to tell the truth." I glanced toward him. "Hopefully, that's going to be enough.

Mira Grant

#32. I'm yours." It was his turn to stop her words. "Just stay with me," he said. "In any way you want." "You deserve better." Rough, broken words. "There's no one better than you." "I'll be the best soldier you ever have," she repeated in a shattered whisper. "I know." It would have to be enough.

Nalini Singh

#33. They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

Toby Jones

#34. He wanted her to want him. To need him as he needed her. And if God never saw fit to grant them a child, for him to be enough for her without one.

Mia Marlowe

#35. No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.

A.J. Darkholme

#36. I realized then that there was actual relief in his expression. That he was pleased to see me in a way he wasn't actually going to be able to say. And I told myself that it was going to have to be enough. I wod do the thing he had asked for. That would have to be enough.

Jojo Moyes

#37. These tantalizing clues used to be enough to sustain him. Now it was only the grail he wanted. He felt grown old inside his young skin. I tire of wonders, he thought.

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. You take what you're given, whether it's the cornfields of the Midwest or the coal mines of West Virginia, and you make your fiction out of it. It's all you have. And somehow, wherever you are, it always seems to be enough.

Larry Brown

#39. I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Madeleine Albright

#40. I always thought of myself as a kind of literary bureaucrat. And that was never going to be enough for me.

Michael Korda

#41. We could make a difference just by holding our emissions steady as our businesses continue to grow. But that doesn't seem to be enough: we want to go all the way to zero. Today, I am announcing our intention to be carbon neutral, across all our businesses, by 2010.

Rupert Murdoch

#42. Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

Duncan Bannatyne

#43. I've learned to relax more. Everybody feels pressure in what they do, maybe mine is just a little different because there doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day to accomplish what I want to.

Tom Cruise

#44. A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

David Steindl-Rast

#45. I know the problem of obesity. I got to tell you, I think that's tepid. I just don't think the bully pulpit is going to be enough to sufficiently fight obesity. We're going to have to have incentives in here.

Max Baucus

#46. I have chosen Mr Baggins and that ought to be enough for all of you. If I say he is a Burglar, a Burglar he is, or will be when the time comes. There is a lot more in him than you guess, and a deal more than he has any idea of himself.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#47. The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another ... .No. It wasn't dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

Lynn Margulis

#48. Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.

Walter Cronkite

#49. I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Henry Rollins

#50. when there doesn't seem to be enough time for all you hope to accomplish, must you give things up (sleep, income, a clean house), or can you learn to condense activities, to do more in less time, to "work smarter, not harder,

Mason Currey

#51. Most blogs have very low readership - perhaps only the blogger's mother or best friend reads them - but even writing for one person, compared to writing for nobody, seems to be enough to compel millions of people to blog.

Dan Ariely

#52. There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.

Jamelia

#53. There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

Steve Jobs

#54. For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Sunday Adelaja

#55. I think there's always great tension because there never seems to be enough - there is always pressure. There's always pressure because there isn't enough time. There's never enough time for a movie, it seems to me. Never.

Maggie Smith

#56. For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.

Tammy Bruce

#57. That was when it became abundantly clear to me that simply eating in a way that avoided hurting others was never going to be enough if my eating habits were still hurting me.

Jasmin Singer

#58. It's not going to be enough, until I get out of my chair and walk.

Matt Nagle

#59. I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

Paul Nurse

#60. No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.

Clementine Von Radics

#61. Let it be enough, Tesoro. It has to be enough.

Elizabeth Hunter

#62. Forget the beauty, comfort, love and enjoyment. You must to be enough tough on yourself to be strong on others.

M.F. Moonzajer

#63. I never know going in if I've even got a movie to make. Once you start making a film, you hope there's going to be enough material! My job as a director is always to push for more.

Asif Kapadia

#64. It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the '90s, you've got to have a Corporate Soul.

Faith Popcorn

#65. Jacopo Belbo didn't understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

Umberto Eco

#66. There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of people like me.

George W. Bush

#67. People think that being a wifey and a mom is supposed to be enough to satisfy you one hundred percent. But I know how it feels to still want more.

Tracy Brown

#68. And Jacob's right-about one thing, anyway-a pack of werewolves ought to be enough to protect even you for one evening.

Stephenie Meyer

#69. One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

Clifton Fadiman

#70. But I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

David Sedaris

#71. I wanted you to choose this. To choose me. But it isn't always possible for two people to want the same thing. I want you, and that will have to be enough for both of us.

Laura Ruby

#72. I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks.

John Green

#73. Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.

Octavia E. Butler

#74. But fucking you is like shooting up, and I don't think one more time is going to be enough.

Santino Hassell

#75. Rojer nodded, but his eye grew wet. Leesha squeezed his hand. "Herb Gatherers see death often," she told him. "No one, no one, ever goes to the Creator with all their business complete. We all get a different length of time, but it needs to be enough, regardless.

Peter V. Brett

#76. Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Richard Russo

#77. Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.

Matthew McConaughey

#78. We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#79. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

David Levithan

#80. One dream is never enough, and your dream can be molded and finessed along the way to become relevant and successful.

Sophia Amoruso

#81. In every election homophobia has been part of the landscape and in every campaign I've been able to become connected enough to my constituents that they know who I am and that I can be elected on my merits.

Kathleen Wynne

#82. Wo-ho!" said the coachman. "So, then! One more pull and you're at the top and be damned to you, for I have had trouble enough to get you to it! - Joe!

Charles Dickens

#83. If one head was enough to appease a prince of Dorne, a bag of them should be more than adequate for a fat northman wrapped in sealskins.

George R R Martin

#84. It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.

George Will

#85. But whom to love?
To trust and treasure?
Who won't betray us in the end?
And who'll be kind enough to measure
Our words and deeds as we intend?

Alexander Pushkin

#86. How bad do you want cancer? Bad enough to eat a rainbow of it? Personally, I think the red cancer would be the worst, but anything you swallow with artificial hues in it is going to pop a tumor out of your body the day after you eat it.

Laurie Notaro

#87. Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#88. We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.

Jennifer Crystal

#89. I know I'm not strong enough to be everything that I'm supposed to be. I give up. I'm not stong enough. Hands of mercy won't you cover me? Lord right now I'm asking you to be Strong enough. Strong enough for the both of us.

Matthew West

#90. When he moves, he gives the impression of somebody leaning into the wind, or charging a hill, as if the world with all of its troubles can be tamed if only enough force and energy are brought to bear.

Michael Ian Black

#91. I like to think I am confident and secure and mature enough to know Nick loves me without him constantly proving it. I don't need pathetic dancing monkey
scenarios to repeat to my friends, I am content with letting him be himself.
I don't know why women find that so hard.

Gillian Flynn

#92. Expression, sentiment, truth to nature, are essential: but all those are not enough. I never care to look at a picture again, if it be ill composed; and if well composed I can hardly leave off looking at it.

John Ruskin

#93. Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Laura Anne Gilman

#94. It's very important to be able to act properly. You need financing, and you never have enough.

Martti Ahtisaari

#95. It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#96. I think that sometimes, romantic comedies have to be really broad, and that the plot of people falling in and out of love or whatever is not enough. 'Enough Said' had that stuff, but I wanted it to be fun and funny while also grounded in reality.

Nicole Holofcener

#97. That's the thing about true love. It can rise from the ashes because at its source, it's indestructible. Layers can be stripped away and lost, but if you're lucky enough to find them again and put them back together, the end result is stronger than ever.

Penelope Ward

#98. Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.

Thomm Quackenbush

#99. I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

Mark Wahlberg

#100. Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

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