Top 100 Exceeds Quotes
#1. You're right. Your decietfulness far exceeds my modest attempts at dishonesty. I bow-down to your superior duplicity.
Aleatha Romig
#2. Any purpose will be entirely purposeless unless it completely exceeds my ability to achieve it for only then is there room for God, and without God purpose of even the most magnificent sort remains utterly and abjectly purposeless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#3. In a very simple way the amount of pain that a professional cyclist goes through, even on a normal day, far exceeds what most people would experience in their entire lives.
Charly Wegelius
#4. My comrades are alive right now!! The Exceeds are alive too!! Whether they've got magic or not, the important thing is that they're alive! These are lives, dammit!
Hiro Mashima
#5. There is not and cannot be in the whole world such a sin that the Lord will not forgive one who truly repents of it. A man even cannot commit so great a sin as would exhaust God's boundless love. How could there be a sin that exceeds God's love?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#6. When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
Kevin McCarthy
#7. The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.
Marty Rubin
#8. Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
Edward Coke
#9. When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
Will Durant
#10. The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE.
Anirban Bose
#11. If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.
Robert Graves
#12. Although man is not armed by nature nor is naturally swiftest in flight, yet he has something better by far - reason. For by the possession of this function he exceeds the beasts to such a degree that he subdues. ... You see, therefore, how much the gift of reason surpasses mere physical equipment.
Adelard Of Bath
#14. We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.
Sam Keen
#16. The Czechs are downright crazy about mushrooms! In late summer and autumn, a foreigner might even get the impression that the number of sponge-hunting Czechs roaming about in the forests with a punnet largely exceeds the possible number of mushrooms.
Terje B. Englund
#17. Lawrence's claims for the vital self and his inability to make it
convincing independently of Freudian psychology are serious flaws in the novel, explain the sense in which the author's vision exceeds his grasp, and bring the cleavage between intention and performance into clear perspective.
John E. Stoll
#18. We should recognize the reality that just because something is good is not sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them.
Dallin H. Oaks
#19. Decadence begins when the budget to beautify a man's home exceeds the coin spent to ensure its defense.
Mark Lawrence
#20. The supply of interpretations, like that of advice, greatly exceeds the need for them.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#21. Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted,
I shun all signs of anchorage, because
The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
Claude McKay
#22. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
Robert Grudin
#23. Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
Amelia Earhart
#24. The modern secular state's capacity for barbarism exceeds any of the evils for which Christendom might justly be indicted, not
David Bentley Hart
#25. No reader can fail to agree that the number of books she needs to read far exceeds her capacities, but when the passion for rereading kicks in, the faint guilt that therefore attends the indulgence only serves to intensify its sweetness.
Patricia Meyer Spacks
#26. Governing isn't as easy as you think. Many of you have taken pledges that are contradictory - to balance the budget and cut taxes, for example. You must be honest about the numbers, since our annual deficit now exceeds all discretionary spending combined.
Brian Baird
#27. Art reminds us that in fact the world always exceeds our grasp and perception.
Jeremy Begbie
#28. When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly ... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr
#29. Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#30. Exhaustion has a way of parting the veils between men, not so much because the effort of censoring their words exceeds them, but because weariness is the foe of volatility. Oft times insults that would pierce the wakeful simply thud against the sleepless and fatigued.
R. Scott Bakker
#31. You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#32. The reason our souls hunger so is that the life we could be living so far exceeds our strangest dreams.
John Ortberg
#33. Two wives? That exceeds the custom.
Moliere
#35. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
John C. Danforth
#36. Oh, come off it," said Ron, striding over to her and whipping her results out of her hand. "Yep - ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' at Defense Against the Dark Arts." He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. "You're actually disappointed, aren't you?
J.K. Rowling
#37. It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.
Michel De Montaigne
#38. Anyone who has property that exceed his needs, let him support someone whose property does not (meet his or her needs), and anyone whose food exceeds his needs, let him share it with someone who does not have food.
Muhammad
#39. his reach exceeds his grasp. He tries to do things no one else would even dream of attempting-and he usually brings about three-quarters of it off. The last quarter sometimes trips him up, but the parts he does manage are remarkable. And no one else would have tried.
Hilari Bell
#40. We need a self because the complexity of the chemical processes that make up our individual humanities exceeds the processing power of our brains.
Mohsin Hamid
#42. I have just dropped into the very place I have been seeking, but in everything it exceeds all my dreams.
Isabella Bird
#43. If, at the end of my days, the sum of what I've taken exceeds the sum of what I've given, then I have lived in vain.
Doug Rice
#44. When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.
Cullen Hightower
#45. Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.
Herman Melville
#46. Retired soldiers are the worst sufferers when they engage in financial operations. I have found that their credulity far exceeds that of widows--and that is saying a good deal.
Agatha Christie
#47. The pain of dwelling on the wrongs done to us by other people far exceeds the little bit of pleasure we derive from condemning others for their guilt.
Rabindranath Tagore
#48. This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
Alan Moore
#50. Tragedy occurs whenever awareness exceeds power; and particularly where awareness of a major need exceeds the power to satisfy it.
Karl Jaspers
#51. There is only one word for a book that exceeds all expectations ... Divergentbyveronicaroth. On second thoughts, that's four words combined!
Ella
#52. The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
#53. For most humans, especially for those in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with nonhuman animals is at meal time: we eat them ... The use and abuse of animals raised for food far exceeds, in sheer numbers of animals affected, any other kind of mistreatment.
Peter Singer
#54. The determination and enthusiasm of the Category 5 team makes it the perfect home for my music as I embark on this next stage of my career. The promotional savvy and level of support they've pledged meets or exceeds anything I've seen from the major labels I've been associated with.
Travis Tritt
#55. The financial wealth of the top 1 percent of households in the U.S. exceeds the combined wealth of the bottom 95 percent.
Ralph Nader
#56. No matter how much the fool has been taught to road, exceeds the fool that's sits at home.
Vivek Sahni
#57. Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.
C. Everett Koop
#58. In the twenty-first century, we face a new set of problems that Taylor could not have imagined. Our productive capacity greatly exceeds our ability to know what to build. Although
Eric Ries
#59. Suicide is not chosen; it happens when pain exceeds resources for coping with pain.
David L. Conroy
#60. It won't be an issue. The area we're modifying will have more breakout space, but I don't think it exceeds 1,000 feet. It's space we already have in the building, the public lobby area, which, in reality, we use now for breakouts and breakfast.
Steve Olson
#61. Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Arthur Bloch
#63. The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.
Chris Alexander
#64. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim. In the case of some men, compassion for a woman exceeds all measure and transports her to an unreal, entirely imaginary world.
Boris Pasternak
#65. When lending people money, be sure their character exceeds their collateral.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#66. What's possible exceeds what's impossible. Think about it. Do all you can do that is possible today, and in your tomorrow, what was impossible will be possible.
Mark Victor Hansen
#67. They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.
Hesiod
#68. History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#69. The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.
Noam Chomsky
#70. No society of nations, no people within a nation, no family can benefit through mutual aid unless good will exceeds ill will; unless the spirit of cooperation surpasses antagonism; unless we all see and act as though the other man's welfare determines our own welfare.
Henry Ford II
#71. I drink from a small spring,
my thirst exceeds the ocean.
Adam Zagajewski
#72. This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late.
R. Scott Bakker
#73. Nothing exceeds like excess.
Raven
#74. An oft-quoted statistic from the [United Nations] reports is that the amount of literature translated into Spanish in a single year exceeds the entire corpus of what has been translated into Arabic in 1,000 years.
The Economist
#75. Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
Josef Pieper
#76. I don't know how many calories an average chess player burns per game, but it often exceeds that of a player in ball games. It is not only the chess as such: You need to be fit and undergo complicated preparation.
Viswanathan Anand
#78. Partyism certainly isn't as horrible as racism; no one is enslaved or turned into a lower caste. But according to some measures, partyism now exceeds racism. In
Cass R. Sunstein
#79. A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius
#80. You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
Saint Stephen
#81. However, because the object raising events has a strong reference to each event listener, this can cause a memory leak when the lifetime of the object raising events exceeds what would be the lifetime of an event listener.
Anonymous
#82. The artist alone among men knows what true humility means. His reach forever exceeds his grasp. He can never be satisfied with his work. He knows when he has done well, but he knows he has never attained his dream. He knows he never can.
Rheta Childe Dorr
#83. Anticipation almost always exceeds the reality of that which we anticipated.
Dov Davidoff
#84. Our behavioral patterns are exceedingly complex, and psychology is a young science. The scope of our behavioral wisdom exceeds the breadth of our explicit interpretation. We act, even instruct, and yet do not understand. How can we do what we cannot explain?
Jordan B. Peterson
#85. I like Valentine's Day. The trouble is the florists and the candy-makers and the card people are all advertising so much, you don't dare let the day go by without making an offering, whether you mean it or not. Money exceeds affection.
Andy Rooney
#86. The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
#87. If we observe the performance of only those funds that remain active, we will tend to find that the average performance of the surviving funds exceeds that of the market.
Robert Haugen
#88. Meanness at church sometimes exceeds anything that occurs in secular surroundings.
Beth Moore
#89. European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.
John Bruton
#90. The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
Alfred Kinsey
#91. When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
Walter Russell
#92. For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
Robert Greene
#93. There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
Abraham Verghese
#94. Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.
Georges Bataille
#95. The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all lit up that exceeds anything all the money in the world could buy.
Andy Rooney
#96. While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection
Amartya Sen
#97. I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.
Bill Jay
#98. We look to the accumulation of sensory pleasures to give our lives meaning. We have the ability now to consume anything we want and this capacity far exceeds our actual needs. With so much at our fingertips, a kind of gluttony pervades our mind-sets.
Mark Epstein
#100. God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power.
Beth Moore
