When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.
If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.
If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you.
If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.
I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.
The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
Knowing is not enough, You must apply
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see.
No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough.
Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.
One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.
We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.
Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?
