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“Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer committing faults in speech, he has surely reached perfection, as was said by the Holy Spirit. The worst defect in talking is talking too much. Hence, in speech be brief and virtuous, brief and gentle, brief and simple, brief and charitable, brief and amiable.”

Said Spirit Simple Talking Doubt Too Much Worst Holy Speech Perfection Faults Tongue Gentle Holy Spirit Attachment Virtuous Defects Charitable Amiable Talking Too Much

Author:Saint Francis de Sales

“Then came nights when, lying awake beside my final wife, I would spend too much time putting my finger on what was wrong. I was wearing the finger out. What was wrong was very simple. Sometimes her life and mine fell on the same day.”

Sometimes Lying Night Simple Too Much Wife Mines Fingers Finals Awake

Book:Stories in the Worst Way

Source: Stories in the Worst Way

“Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.”

Simple Decision Too Much

Book:Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make? You think your ingredients, your structure. Simple. [Other] Japanese restaurants … mix in some other style of food and call it influence, right? I don't like that. … In Japanese sushi restaurants, a lot of sushi chefs talk too much. 'This fish from there,' 'This very expensive.' Same thing, start singing. And a lot have that fish case in front of them, cannot see what chef do. I'm not going to hide anything, right?”

Thinking Want Kind Jobs House Simple Cases Too Much Influence Style Fronts Singing Structure Fishes Restaurants Expensive Ingredients Chef Make You Think Carpenter Sushi

Author:Masa Takayama

“The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify too much with everything I read and study. Someone like Dostoevsky still shatters me.”

Stills Enough Facts Spirit Simple Study Too Much Excess Indulge Inner Life Indulge In

Book:Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

Source: Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943

“The key dietary messages are stunningly simple: Eat less, move more, eat more fruits and vegetables, and don't eat too much junk food. It's no more complicated than that.”

Moving Simple Too Much Food Keys Messages Cooking Fruit Complicated Culinary Vegetables Junk Junk Food Fruits And Vegetables

Author:Marion Nestle

“I dont really like simple characters too much; its too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.”

Character Easy Challenges Simple Too Much Screens

Author:Kodi Smit-McPhee

“I did a film when I was about 30; it's a coming of age story called 'Gas Food Lodging,' and I'm so proud of that little independent film. I play this young English geologist, and he's such a simple, loving kind of guy. Doesn't talk too much. He's just a quiet guy, and he gets the girl.”

Kind Littles Play Stories Age Film Young Guy Girl Simple Too Much Proud Quiet Independent Gas Coming Of Age Independent Film Geologist

Author:Robert Knepper

“There are a million moving parts to raising kids, and you can't always anticipate them all, especially when they are teenagers and their peers play such a huge role in their lives. If you offer independence, there is one kind of pitfall; if you shelter them too much, there is another. And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.”

Ifs Kind Sometimes Play Happens Kids Moving Simple Roles Millions Too Much Huge Offers Independence Scary Teenager Shelter Peers Anticipate Pitfalls Raising Kids Moving Parts

Author:Anna Quindlen

“PhotoShop is a program I use all the time with my 2D stuff. And that's an extraordinary program - you really can do anything there, and I've never hit my head on the ceiling. The 3D stuff is incredibly complicated, monstrously complicated, but for the things that I want to do, I've found very simple and interesting ways, I hope, of making images without getting tied up too much in the maps and technicalities.”

Way Want Use Found Stuff Can Do Simple Interesting Too Much Program Extraordinary Complicated Maps Tied Ceilings Tied Up Interesting Ways Photoshop Technicalities

Author:Dave McKean

“The rich, the well-born, and the able, acquire an influence among the people that will soon be too much for simple honesty and plain sense, in a house of representatives. The most illustrious of them must, therefore, be separated from the mass, and placed by themselves in a senate; this is, to all honest and useful intents, an ostracism.”

People Wells Able House Born Simple Rich Too Much Influence Honest Honesty Mass Simplicity Acquire Senate Representatives House Of Representatives Ostracism

Book:The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

Source: The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections

“My students sometimes ask: what is a fundamentalist? I give them a very simple definition. A fundamentalist is no fun, too much damn, and not enough mental.”

Giving Sometimes Enough Asks Fun Simple Too Much Students Definitions Damn Fundamentalist

Author:Bart D. Ehrman