Adequate

Famous quotes containing the word adequate:

“When cafe life thrives, talk is a shared limberness of the mind that improves appetite for conversation: an adequate sentence maker is then made good, a good one excellent, an excellent one extraordinary.”
—Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)

“Remorse is cureless—the Disease
Not even God—can heal—
For ‘tis His institution—and
The Adequate of Hell—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“True love does not quarrel for slight reasons, such mistakes as mutual acquaintances can explain away, but, alas, however slight the apparent cause, only for adequate and fatal and everlasting reasons, which can never be set aside.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)