Quotes of: Life-is-too-short Keyword

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

The Beautiful and Damned

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Kill all the prisoners, because they’re costing us too much money. Wait! No, kill all the politicians, because they’re spending too much money.

$3.33

Governments are too stupid to understand that too much red tape does not bind a nation together—it tears it apart.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

... when things get too good and too right and too perfect, it's only because the ugly twist hasn't yet infiltrated the goodness of it all...

Hopeless

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

Norwegian Wood

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

Ladies Coupé

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world.

The Separate Notebooks

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to "try." Now count the times it tells us to "trust.

Prayer for Beginners

If the map doesn't agree with the ground the map is wrong

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

Ian Anderson

You can feel yourself trying too hard, doing too much. Nobody wants to watch somebody when they're needy, and actors are in the unfortunate position of needing to be cast and needing to be liked.

Jess Weixler

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

Poppy Z. Brite

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

Richard Krajicek

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that it's never too late and there's no right or wrong way to do anything.

Sheila E.

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

Steven Erikson

I don't think I was a year too late or a year too early in retiring. If the Seahawks had been in the playoffs a year later, I might have had some regrets.

Steve Largent

A woman can never be too rich or too thin, but until very, very recently, she could be too powerful, for which - if she wasn't smart enough to camouflage herself - she generally paid the price.

Stacy Schiff

Kids are very sensitive to the value system of their parents, and I just felt my parents were attaching too much importance, too much meaning, to things.

Tino Sehgal