T Quotes
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“Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.”
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked
By various diseases of the intellect
Or failing body. How am I still upright?
And even I sleep half the day, cough half the night.
How did it come to this? How else but through
The course of years, and what its workings do
To wood, stone, glass and almost all the metals,
Smouldering already in the fresh rose petals.
Our energy deceived us. Blessed with the knack
To get things done, we thought to get it back
Each time we lost it, just by taking breath —
And some of us are racing yet as we face death.
Well, good to see you. Sorry I have to fly.
I’m struggling with a deadline, God knows why,
And ghosts keep interrupting. Think of me
The way I do of you. Quite often. Constantly.”
“Too many of my friends have turned to apathy. While events change our lives, intention changes the trajectory.”
“Too many of my men will ne'er again feel anything. Pain is a small price to pay for living.”
Source: The Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead #5
“Too many of my Senate colleagues overdid it. They stayed on too long - napping through committee hearings when they should have packed up and gone home.”
“Too many of our children cannot read. Reading is the building block, and it must be the foundation for education reform.”
“Too many of our countrymen rejoice in stupidity, look upon ignorance as a badge of honor. They condemn everything they don't understand.”
Source: Tallulah: My Autobiography
“Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.”
“Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.”
“Too many of the conflicts which are caused today are caused by the problems that emerge from people who are in poverty.”
“Too many of the organizations I have observed resemble a farm in Kansas. They have lots of fences and silos as well as a storm cellar.”
“Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.”
“Too many of us are afraid to slow down because then we would have to take a good look at how we're using our time and what we're becoming. We don't want to listen to that other voice deep inside, telling us something is not right.”
“Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when we could use that same energy – if not less of it – doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.”
Source: Disappearing Acts
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living out fears.”
“Too many of us are not living our dreams, because we are living our fears. Decide to become fearless. Face the thing you fear the most. You're stronger than you give yourself credit for.
If you can laugh at it. You can move past it. You have the ability to do more than you have ever hoped, imagined or dreamed. You have GREATNESS within you!”
“Too many of us dissipate our energy by being 'for all good causes,' attending meetings and passing resolutions, organizing and presenting petitions — all this effort to change others, when if we really got down to it we could use this energy to change ourselves… We become tired radicals because we use our weakest weapon: the ballot box, where we are always outnumbered, and refuse to use our strongest weapon: spiritual power.”
Source: The Book of Ammon
“Too many of us fail to fulfill our needs because we say no rather than yes, yes when we should say no.”
Source: Reality Therapy: A New Approach to Psychiatry
“Too many of us feel that we have to be perfect, in order to be loved.”
Source: Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves
“Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.”
“Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.”
Source: Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward
“Too many of us live on the horizontal, vain level of life: We want to acquire more and more things; we want the material blessings of life and we are neglecting the elevated state of existence! And that's why God said of Abraham he was neither a Christian nor a Jew, he was a Muslim: he was an upright man.”
“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
“Too many of us never understand what we owe to our dear ones until there remains no further opportunity of paying love's debt.”
“Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.”
“Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone on board; we don't need one magic person in office; we need ourselves. To act. It's the wind, not the weathervanes.”
“Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.”
“Too many of us spend our lives incessantly running only to find ourselves completely lost because our running was driven by fear and not inspired by a destination.”
“Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.”
Source: The Way of Kings
“Too many of us vote for our prejudices instead of our desires.”
“Too many of you are doing great stuff in small ponds, it's time for a stir-up, break limits, break boundaries, breakthrough. Go, make it happen!”
“Too many of you, my friends, are dying. Now it's time for me to do my part and help you.”
“Too many overweight teenage girls are being pressurised by their families to lose weight when what they in fact need is better nourishment (which would almost certainly help them lose weight along the way).”
Source: First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
“Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”
“Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.”
“Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.”
“Too many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.”
“Too many people are confusing charisma with autocrat, fat cat. So I think we have to be a little more sophisticated when we hold up or tear down these stereotypes. Whether we call it charisma or not, a leader cannot be self-effacing to the point of being wimpy.”
“Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.”
“Too many people are fighting to protect their political party rather than to preserve the truth.”
“Too many people are going for self and not trying to help their communities.”
“Too many people are hungry not because there is dearth of food. It is because there is dearth of love and care in human hearts.”
“Too many people are living in a prison that they have themselves manufactured.”
“Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!"
(p. 127)”
Source: Punk Monk: New Monasticism and the Ancient Art of Breathing
“Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable.”
“Too many people are stuck on sickness benefits because of issues that could be addressed but instead are not, some have drug or alcohol problems, but refuse treatment. In other cases, people have problems with their weight that could be addressed, but instead a life on benefits rather than work becomes the choice.”
“Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot.”
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death.”
“Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.”
Source: You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity