Quotes of: Too-much Keyword

If you want to give yourself a fair chance to succeed, never expect too much too soon

Po Bronson

I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know.

Joshua Morrow

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

Hugh Hefner

The price of being a nice guy is too high - much too high - in terms of the system of justice.

Jed S. Rakoff

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Nicole Kidman

Maximus: You risk too much. Lucilla: I have much to pay for. Maximus: You have nothing to pay for.

Gladiator

Off the floor, I'm really laid back: like, nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor, I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy trave...

Dirk Nowitzki

When he recalls it in later years, he will wonder if he is distorting it, embellishing it, because each time he consciously recalls her, that forms a new memory, a new imprint to be stacked on top of the previous one. He fears that too much handling ...

Cutting for Stone

Do you ever think that people who find it tougher to say what they're feeling are the ones who feel things more intensely? As if they're the ones who really understand what it means to love someone? As if they have to keep their defenses high, becaus...

Double Trouble

You can't go around feeling too much", Captain Travanion had explained watching a moment to ensure the man was indeed dead. "Because if you feel too much, enough to want to kill them so savagely then one day you are going to feel enough to spare thei...

Froi of the Exiles

We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.

Fresh Air: Trading Stale Spiritual Obligation for a Life-Altering, Energizing, Experience-It-Everyday Relationship with God

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut of...

Home Front

Landon drops the bloody knife and stares at Summer like he doesn’t even know her anymore. The truth is, she’ll never be the girl she was seven months ago. Too much has happened. Too much has changed. “Why’d you do that?” Summer cries. “To...

Burning Falls

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourse...

The Bruised Reed

Whatever you had -- I don't know what it was, and that's fine. But it must not be easy for you. You miss him, and that's okay. But you have to figure that if it's too much hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.

How They Met, and Other Stories

Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.

A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Mister didn't come with me on cases, being above such trivial matters, but he found me pleasant company when I was at home and not moving around too much, except when he didn't, in which case he went rambling

Side Jobs: Stories From the Dresden Files

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

Yeah. Floyd is his batman." His what?" Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant." You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.

Mortal Stakes

Early moralists who believed that taking too much pleasure at the table led inexorably to bad character-or worse, to sex-were (in the best-case scenario, anyway) absolutely right.

The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

Mostly I couldn't bear... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship