It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
– John Steinbeck
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- The materials are mostly from living beings – living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials. – Brad McKinniss
- The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed – Henry David Thoreau
- Sow a thought and reap an action, sow an action and reap a habit, sow a habit and reap a destiny – John Cleaver – Dan Wells
- The offspring of virtue is perseverance. The fruit and offspring of perseverance is habit and child of habit is character. – John Climacus
- Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence
- With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
- Sow a thought, and you reap an act;Sow an act, and you reap a habit;Sow a habit, and you reap a character;Sow a character, and you reap a destiny. – Samuel Smiles
- Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God. – Elizabeth George
- For out of the perverse will came lust, and the service of lust ended in habit, and habit, not resisted, became necessity. – Augustine of Hippo
- Comedy is not the opposite of darkness, but its natural bedfellow. Pain makes laughter necessary; laughter makes pain tolerable. – Mindy Greenstein
- All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children. – Marty Rubin
- Good-hearted laughter is a tribute to the happy God, who created laughter and delights to enter into it with us. – Randy Alcorn
- With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate. – Spike Milligan
- When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence. – Ansel Adams
- It is only a woman who can make a man feel like a ‘superhero’ or ‘inadequate’.Its her attention and admiration that a man desperately seeks! – Sanjai Velayudhan
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. – Stephen Richards
- Pictures and words are wholly inadequate to understand the complex creations and beauty of our world. – Arzak Khan
- Now? I’m just another female faking ??????s to make a man not feel so inadequate. – Jess C Scott
- Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all. – Patricia A McKillip
- Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER? – EverSkeptic
- Food is symbolic of love when words are inadequate. – Alan D Wolfelt
- It’s embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is. – Anthony Doerr
- I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language. – Beth Revis
- The wrong lover will always make your love feel inadequate. – Jasmine Sandozz
- A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment. – Ren Dubos
- In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. – Edna OBrien
- She learns a valuable lesson: if you think you are good, just try doing good. You’ll soon find out how inadequate your little drop of goodness is. – AnnMarie MacDonald
- A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. – Geraldine Brooks
- Inventors make something out of anything, but God makes something out of nothing. Elohim needs no raw materials. – Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
- Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter. – Thomas Paine
- Please DO waste art materials. Use paper. Empty paint jars. Deplete pens. if it’s teaching you stuff, it’s not being wasted. – Danny Gregory
- History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation. – Alasdair MacIntyre
- To create different work, one needs new tools and materials – Natasha Tsakos
- The Bible is God’s vision bank where you can withdraw raw materials to design your destiny. – Prince Akwarandu
- Life is pain. War is change. The raw materials of life hammered and shaped into something with a purpose. – James A Moore
- Sell your materials but save your morals. – Amit Kalantri
- There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials. – Kij Johnson
- A writer off-guard since the materials with which he works are so dangerous can expect agony as quick as a thunderclap. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr