Too Much Quotes - Page 19

• I don't think men should think too much about their hair. They shouldn't think. They should just open bottles for women, hammer nails into wall and chop wood.

  Kemp Muhl

  Wall, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm not extravagant, so I won't need to rein it in too much. Me and my friend make each other cards. I love being creative and making things. But a better credit crunch idea is to not even bother sending cards.

  Konnie Huq

  Love Is, Ideas, Creative

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• I talk too much when I'm nervous.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Nervous

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

  Andy Summers

  Guy, Hot, Needs

  Source: collider.com

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• I was certainly going the right way for a stroke when I left Paris. I paid for it nicely afterwards! When I stopped drinking, when I stopped smoking so much, when I began to think again instead of trying not to think - Good Lord, the depression and the prostration of it! Work in these magnificent natural surroundings (Arles) has restored my morale, but even now some efforts are too much for me: my strength fails me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drinking, Thinking, Paris

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Vicent van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Editorial Biblos

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• Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon.

  Peter Drucker

  Reorganization, Goes On

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• Instead of growing old gracefully, at home with my family - reading and writing and praying and thinking - too much of my time has been spent at airports and in hotels.

  Desmond Tutu

  Reading, Home, Writing

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu announces retirement from public life" by Xan Rice, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

  Petrarch

  Eye, Delight, Earth

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Alive, Earth

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

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• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

  Willa Cather

  Details, Extravagance, Form

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• Modest egotism is the salt of conversation; you do not want too much of it, but if it is altogether omitted, everything tastes flat.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Want, Taste, Salt

  Henry Van Dyke (1908). “Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness”

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• I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Prayer, Philosophy

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, John McVickar (1854). “Coleridge's Aids to reflection: with the author's last corrections”, p.6

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• Thinking too little about things or thinking too much both make us obstinate and fanatical.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Littles, Obstinate

  Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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• The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Mean, Special, Literature

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking”, p.26, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• If we could put material things into their proper place, and use them without being attached to them, how much freer we would be. Then we wouldn't burden ourselves with things we don't need. If we could only realize that we are all cells in the same body of humanity - then we would think of having enough for all, not too much for some and too little for others.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Cells, Humanity

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• I learned about forty years ago that money and things wouldn't make people happy. And this has been confirmed many times. I have met many millionaires. They had one thing in common. None of them were happy....I realize that if you don't have enough you won't be happy. Neither are you happy if you have too much. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Years, People, Common

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• With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot.

  David Shields

  Sacrifice, Plot, Novel

  David Shields (2010). “Reality Hunger”, p.114, Vintage

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• I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

  Ian Fleming

  Iron, Long, Drunk

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• Nothing appeals to children more than justice, and they should be taught in the nursery to "play fair" in games, to respect each other's property and rights, to give credit to others, and not to take too much credit to themselves.

  Emily Post

  Children, Rights, Games

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.579, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness many, many years ago. Once you get started in television, people associate you with your physical appearance - and that includes the mustache. So I can't shave it off now. If I did, I'd have to answer too much mail.

  Walter Cronkite

  Order, Years, People

  "Walter Cronkite: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Selfish, Taken, Heart

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Campaigns, Genius, Littles

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.177, Princeton University Press

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• I've always found that you can control people better if you don't see too much of them.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  People, Found, Ifs

  William Lyon Mackenzie King, John English, John O. Stubbs (1977). “Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate”

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• I'm pretty chirpy. I can talk a little too much smack.

  Tom Brady

  Littles, Smack, I Can

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• I'm relaxed at the plate. I'm not trying to do too much.

  Johnny Damon

  Trying, Plates, Relaxed

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