T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Too much of American politics is decided by efforts to restrict who votes or, as in gerrymandering, to manipulate the weight those votes hold. A more democratic system won’t end polarization, but it will create a healthier form of competition.”
Source: Why We're Polarized
“Too much of anything can make you sick, even the good can be a curse - Cheryl Cole”
“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.”
Source: Dreams
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
Source: Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist
“Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.”
Source: 365 Shortcuts to Home Decorating
“Too much of anything is tiresome. Even the best things.”
Source: Snake Twin and Other Stories
“Too much of anything isn’t good for anyone.”
Source: The Veldt
“Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.”
“Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country.”
“Too much of love can cause too much of hate.”
“Too much of love can cause too much of hate. Don't love anyone too much!”
“Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.”
“Too much of nothing can turn a man into a liar. It can cause one man to sleep on nails and another to eat fire.”
Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012
“Too much of nothing, it just makes a fellow mean.”
“Too much of oneself can be projected into the silence”
Source: The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
“Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.”
Source: Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
“Too much of our lives is defined by noise. Headphones go in
(noise-canceling headphones so that we can better hear . . . noise).”
Source: Stillness Is the Key
“Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.”
“Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.”
Source: Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God
“Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in front of the left and the left in front of the right, moving down narrow corridors toward narrow goals. Play widens the halls. Work will always be with us, and many works are worthy. But the worthiest works of all often reflect an artful creativity that looks more like play than work.”
“Too much of something can lead to the opposite”
“Too much of something is never good.”
“Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.”
“Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.”
“Too much of the income gains go to too few people, even though all of the stakeholders worked together to make their companies successful. By failing to put enough income into more hands, the GDP grows slower and consumers manage to meet their needs by incurring high levels of debt.”
“Too much of the opportunity that we have is used to destroy the opportunity that we have.”
“Too much of the world's happiness depends on taking from one to satisfy another. To increase my standard of living, someone in another part of the world must lower his. The worldwide crisis of hunger that we face today is a result of that method of pursuing happiness. Industrialized nations acquire appetites for more and more luxuries and higher and higher standards of living, and increasing numbers of people are made poor and hungry. It doesn't have to be that way.”
Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and 'what is that?', and you waste a lot of time in this conflict.”
“Too much of water hast thou poor Ophelia, and therefore I forbid my tears.
But yet it is our trick, let shame say what it will. when these are gone the women will be out!
Adieu my lord, I have a speech of fire that fane would blaze,
But that this folly doubts it.”
Source: Hamlet
“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears.”
“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.”
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
“Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill a huge emotional and psychological void left by the absence of meaningful work. When people cease to find meaning in work, when work is boring, alienating, and dehumanizing, the only option becomes the urge to consume—to buy happiness off the shelf, a phenomenon we now know cannot suffice in the long term.”
“Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.”
“Too much of whatever is dangerous.”
“Too much Oil, gonna spoil YA!
(There Will Be Blood 2007 - Movie)”
“Too much openness and you accept every notion, idea, and hypothesis-which is tantamount to knowing nothing. Too much skepticism-especially rejection of new ideas before they are adequately tested-and you're not only unpleasantly grumpy, but also closed to the advance of science. A judicious mix is what we need.”
“Too much or too little radiation has the potential to kill you!”
Source: Magee’s Disease
“Too much pessimism has led too many men into making serious mistakes. And perhaps part of our pessimism comes because we are too close to ourselves to see in proper perspective.”
“Too much philosophy makes men mad.”
Source: The Noonday Devil
“Too much pleasure disagrees with us. Too many concords are annoying in music; too many benefits irritate us; we wish to have the wherewithal to overpay our debts.”
Source: Pensées
“Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.”
“Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.”
“Too much praise cannot be bestowed on those who managed my artillery.”
Source: Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814
“Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.”
“Too much preaching nowadays pats the back and tickles the ear, but does not get under the skin. There is no conviction and therefore no conversion. I am thinking not only of the ministry of reproof and rebuke but also of the message of inspiration, of encouragement, of comfort. People go out of church at noon with the depths unstirred, the heart untouched, the conscience unpricked.”
“Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.”
Source: The Descendant
“Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.”