Wherewithal Quotes

#1. Our age is so resolutely unheroic, and the employment opportunities for registered demigods are now so scarce, that all we can do, in our enfeebled state, is laugh with envy and disbelief at the memory of those who still had the wit and the wherewithal to live large.

Anthony Lane

#2. Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne.

William Shakespeare

#3. Yes, well, I'm not at all surprised by that revelation, but you see I'm making love to her and that requires a certain finesse, which I doubt your father has the wherewithal to possess.

Lorraine Heath

#4. Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

Robin Hobb

#5. Whenever you take over something that is popular and has a fanatical following that loves it, you're never going to please everyone. The trick is to have enough wherewithal to follow through with what you want to do with it and give it time to evolve.

Jon Stewart

#6. Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.

Blaise Pascal

#7. Like anyone, you could love someone, and it doesn't mean that you're equipped or you were taught or have the patience or the love or the wherewithal to be a good parent. One has nothing to do with the other.

Elizabeth Rodriguez

#8. Financial capital - the wherewithal for mass marketing - has steadily replaced social capital - that is, grassroots citizen networks - as the coin of the realm.

Robert D. Putnam

#9. Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.

Michael Pollan

#10. I get egotistical about things where I can do something well - for example, my singing. Most other things, I don't have the wherewithal to back it up.

David Crosby

#11. You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.

Rand Paul

#12. I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

Eugene Levy

#13. I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the number of students with the confidence and wherewithal to complete degrees.

Daphne Koller

#14. For having wealth and wherewithal to "do good", if you do it not, talk not of faith, for you have no faith in you.

Lancelot Andrewes

#15. However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

#16. If you have the wherewithal to have a lot of money, have it.

T. Harv Eker

#17. I had been resigned to the consolation of man's best friend, i.e., self-pleasure, and certainly did not possess the wherewithal to consort with prostitutes.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#18. If you don't believe in your product, or if you're not consistent and regular in the way you promote it, the odds of succeeding go way down. The primary function of the marketing plan is to ensure that you have the resources and the wherewithal to do what it takes to make your product work.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#19. Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Allan Bloom

#20. Every economic ... acti on must set about providing each inhabitant of the planet with the minimum wherewithal to live in dignity and freedom, with the possibility of supporting a family, educating children, praising God and developing one's own human potential.

Pope Francis

#21. Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid.

Michael Perrin

#22. I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.

Paul Broun

#23. Having the opportunity to choose is no blessing if we feel we do not have the wherewithal to choose wisely.

Barry Schwartz

#24. There were times, earlier in my career, where I didn't have the wherewithal to self-edit, and I probably said things and pushed the limits to places where people might be put off. But that's truly part of developing as an artist.

Dane Cook

#25. There's plenty of blame to go around. But without them, I would not have been part of a larger plot to overthrow the Capitol or had the wherewithal to do it.

Suzanne Collins

#26. Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous.

Walter Dean Myers

#27. Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.

Richard Davidson

#28. How a peaceful, uncrowded place with ample wherewithal stays poor is hard to explain. How a conflict-ridden, grossly over-populated place with no resources whatsoever gets rich is simple. The British colonial government turned Hong Kong into an economic miracle by doing nothing.

P. J. O'Rourke

#29. I would like to be George Clooney diplomatic. I just don't have the wherewithal yet or the inner serenity.

Shia Labeouf

#30. Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#31. God pays all bills He authorizes." When we take chances on our own, in ministry or business or finances, we take a risk. But if God directs us to do something, He will provide the desire, the means, the tools, and the wherewithal - and perhaps an angel - to help us.

Betty Malz

#32. I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

Twyla Tharp

#33. If you have the ability and the wherewithal to create work that's basically in a discussion with the culture we're in, how could you not want to do that?

Scott Rudin

#34. Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#35. There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are ... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.

Helen Frankenthaler

#36. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.

Roger L'Estrange

#37. The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more.

Mahatma Gandhi

#38. I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.

Tiffanie DeBartolo