#inadequate

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched. ↗

— Erika Slezak

#cliched #come #ever #hopelessly #inadequate

I was a terrible dancer. I couldn't carry a tune. I had no sense of balance, and when we had to walk down a narrow board with our hands out and a book on our heads in gym class I always fell over. I couldn't ride a horse or ski, the two things I wanted to do most, because they cost too much money. I couldn't speak German or read Hebrew or write Chinese. I didn't even know where most of the old out-of-the-way countries the UN men in front of me represented fitted in on the map. For the first time in my life, sitting there in the soundproof heart of the UN building between Constantin who could play tennis as well as simultaneously interpret and the Russian girl who knew so many idioms, I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ↗

— John Adams

#constitution #government #inadequate #made #moral

Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#errors #inadequate #less #much #than

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#pcs #suck

The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#betraying #coin #critic #criticism #fashion

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. ↗

— Eric Bogosian

#best #could #doing #i #idealistic

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#arranged #awe #deep #edge #end

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#detail #exposed #families #gulf #heartbreak

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world. ↗

— John Ambrose Fleming

#explain #inadequate #inorganic #manifestation #origin