Top 100 Much For Quotes
#1. Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
Kenneth Noland
#2. Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...
Geoffrey Hill
#3. I lived by a bay for a while, and I shucked oysters. Some packing things. You know, just whatever odd job you can find whenever you're moving around. I never really cared much for the franchise kind of work, so I'd try to find things that I considered to be a little more honorable.
Frank Fairfield
#4. Oh, God," I said. "Thank you so very much for the mental image of Dad as a teenage sack of hormones. That's the sort of image that takes therapy to get rid of.
John Scalzi
#5. I think it is conceded that I generally do pretty big things as a manager, am audacious in my outlays and risks, give much for little money, and make my shows worthy the support of the moral and refined classes.
P.T. Barnum
#6. I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give young people something to think about, like the future, that's a better use of my time.
Arnold Palmer
#7. My daughter is my biggest achievement. She is a little star and my life has changed so much for the better since she came along.
Denise Van Outen
#8. I didn't care much for being called stupid and softhearted. But the boyfriend bit I could live with.
Mike Mullin
#9. It doesnt change much for me really and my motivation remains the same - to create a beautiful future with Barcelona, winning many titles.
Ronaldinho
#10. All I want for my birthday is a date with my muse Christina Aguilera Is that too much for a guy to ask for?
Ocean Crisstopher Poet
#11. The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
Tom Hayden
#12. I rolled my eyes and set my head in my hands, as if it was too much for me, and it almost was.
Gillian Flynn
#13. To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.
Immanuel Kant
#14. Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
Adam Driver
#15. Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
Edward Abbey
#16. Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
Socrates
#17. Long moments passed, and finally she rolled onto her side too so that our backs faced one another. Icy silence fell. So much for a peaceful or romantic night.
Richelle Mead
#18. He'd sacrifice much for her. He'd do anything she asked of him. He'd pay any price, except one.
The price of giving her up.
Becky Wade
#19. Well, draw yourself a pretty little blueprint and do me a favor and don't show it to me. I like fighting, and I like fucking. I don't care much for thinking.
Cara McKenna
#21. Nothing is so good it lasts eternally. Perfect situations must go wrong. But this has never yet prevented me wanting far too much for far too long.
Tim Rice
#23. Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
Cornelia Funke
#24. I went to a garage sale. 'How much for the garage' 'It's not for sale.'
Steven Wright
#25. So much for deceit, for accepting blame. So much for never telling a soul.
Ellen Hopkins
#26. I was down on myself so much for what I saw as not pushing back sometimes that it had never occurred to me that took its own strength.
Richelle Mead
#27. I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.
Missy Peregrym
#28. Music, especially as an adolescent, helps to build identity because that's when people start developing a sense of self. You can kind of tell based on what music a person listens to what kind of person they'll be pretty much for the rest of their life.
Aloe Blacc
#29. There wasn't much for me to do after school except the drama club, so when I kind of started doing drama club, it seemed to be something I could do.
Julianne Moore
#30. Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.
Mary Baker Eddy
#31. Whatever made her happy made me happy - except the time she thought divorcing me would make her life happier. That didn't do much for me.
Michael Connelly
#32. What do you do when the one person you want comfort from the most is the one who caused your pain? How can I want so desperately for him to wrap me up in his arms but also want so much for him to leave me alone.
Amanda Grace
#33. I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.
John Hughes
#34. I said, "Where's all that delivering God's supposed to do?"
He snorted. "You're right, the only deliverance is the one we get for ourselves. The Lord doesn't have any hands and feet but ours."
"That doesn't say much for the Lord."
"It doesn't say much for us, either.
Sue Monk Kidd
#35. Can we do too much for the Lord? Certainly we all love Him. Therefore, I implore us, keep His commandments and become more like Him. Come unto Christ, eat the bread of life, drink the living water, and feast on His limitless love. He is our Savior, our Master, of whom I bear my humble witness.
F. Melvin Hammond
#36. Reject the phony Patients' Bill of Rights ... We don't have to continue down the path of socialized medical care, especially in America where free markets have provided so much for so many.
Ron Paul
#37. You can't depend on the kind of folks people think they are - you've got to go by what they do. And I wouldn't give much for a man that some folks hadn't thought was a fool, in his time.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#38. Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. "That," said he, "is too little for a king to give." "Why, then," said the other, "give me a talent." "And that," said he, "is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.
Plutarch
#39. The thought of one day not thinking of him at all is just too much for me. It feels like a betrayal to ever hope for such things. ~Livvie
C.J. Roberts
#40. Shopping's absolutely impossible nowadays. You can't get near the counter, and when you do, they haven't got it and you pay twiceas much for it.
Arthur Wimperis
#41. If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.
Lance Henriksen
#42. I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.
Nick Nolte
#43. I'm not much for setup ... punch line. I talk about my kids. I talk about my wife.
Al Madrigal
#44. Tantrums are not bad behavior. Tantrums are an expression of emotion that became too much for the child to bear. No punishment is required. What your child needs is compassion and safe, loving arms to unload in.
Rebecca Eanes
#45. She accused him of not thinking she was enough for him? The woman was entirely too much for him! She made him want to bellow with rage and hit things, then lock her in a room and kiss her senseless, until she gave in.
Sarah MacLean
#46. I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs ... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood ... It just got to be too much for me.
Winona Ryder
#47. Just in proportion as we realize how much Christ has done for us, shall we labour to do much for Christ.
J.C. Ryle
#48. And she would protect him as fiercely, if it were ever his need- if a fight ever became too much for him or if he needed shelter, or food, or a fire in the rain. Or anything she could provide. She would protect him from anything.
Kristin Cashore
#49. Love knows no pain, no sacrifice is too much for it; it is an absolute one-pointed state of mind toward the well-being of the other person who is called lover or beloved.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#50. You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.
William Faulkner
#51. If he had any compassion for me' cried her husband impatiently 'he would not have danced half so much! For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Oh! that he sprained his ankle in the first dance!
Jane Austen
#52. The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
Samuel Richardson
#53. PRAYER to the sun above the clouds.
Sun that givest all things birth,
shine on everything on earth!
If that's too much to demand,
shine at least on this our land.
If even that's too much for thee,
shine at any rate on me.
Piet Hein
#55. Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
Emile M. Cioran
#56. I'm sure you'll have fun," said Garry, insincerely. "And how is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?" "Jessica's from Ilford, actually, Garry. And she remains the light and love of my life, thank you very much for asking.
Neil Gaiman
#57. DAY THREE I DECLARE I have the grace I need for today. I am full of power, strength, and determination. Nothing I face will be too much for me. I will overcome every obstacle, outlast every challenge, and come through every difficulty better off than I was before. This is my declaration.
Joel Osteen
#58. She was braver than I, she always had been. I cared too much for the opinion of others, she cared not a whit. I was cautious, she was brash. I was a thinker, she was a doer. I kindled fires, she spread them. And right then and ever after, I saw how cunning
Sue Monk Kidd
#59. So much for you to learn, Empress. Beware the inactivated card." One Arcana's powers lay dormant - until he or she killed another player. "Who is it?" "Don't ask, if you ever want to know.
Kresley Cole
#60. I've tried a number of religions and gurus in my time, including Buddhism, but ultimately they didn't do as much for my peace of mind as snooker.
Ronnie O'Sullivan
#61. When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.
Flannery O'Connor
#62. Moreover, unready as you are, you don't need such a great martyr's cross. If you had killed father, I would regret that you rejected your cross. But you're innocent, and such a cross is too much for you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#63. Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.
Neal A. Maxwell
#64. These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
Mel Brooks
#65. I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.
Jerome Flynn
#66. I don't care very much for miniatures. I don't try to beat my opponents quickly because if they are strong, I think I should respect them. It is too risky to play sharply to beat them in 20 moves.
Bent Larsen
#67. I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.
Claire Bidwell Smith
#68. Don't be too sure,' he continued. The other day I took up a man who hanged himself on the road. He was a Swede, too.' 'Hanged himself! Why, in God's name?' I cried. He kept on looking out watchfully. 'Who knows? The sun too much for him, or the country perhaps.
Joseph Conrad
#69. Nature impelled men to make sounds with their tongues And they found it useful to give names to things Much for the same reason that we see children now Have recourse to gestures because they cannot speak And point their fingers at things which appear before them.
Lucretius
#70. in town. She confronted him and he protested too much for her comfort. Mum had very good intuition, and her suspicions were soon confirmed.
Eileen Rockefeller
#71. Never have so many given so much for so long for so little for so few for so seldom.
Neil Simon
#72. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime.
Rebecca Skloot
#73. I'm not much for cats. I'm terrified of mice. I've worked a lot with elephants, and they are extremely intelligent and sensitive, and thankfully, they seem to like me. You never want to get on the bad side of an elephant. And never trust a chimp.
Mary Ellen Mark
#74. Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
Herman Melville
#75. The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.
Judith Schaechter
#76. So much for my one and done strategy. Guess I'll be here for a while. It could be worse. It could be a fat old man I'm having to guard instead of a cute teenage girl.
Brittany DeLys
#77. I loved Midori. And I had probably known as much for a while. I had just been avoiding the conclusion for a very long time.
Haruki Murakami
#78. When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.
Nina Burleigh
#79. I love you too much for that," she mewed. "For my sake, go.
Erin Hunter
#80. The sidesaddle was designed to protect a maiden's virginity, while risking the maiden's neck. Rather much for rather little, I thought.
Sheri S. Tepper
#81. Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.
Phyllis Bottome
#82. Maybe I think too much for my own good.
Paul Simon
#83. The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
Saint Teresa Of Avila
#84. Thank you so much for breaking my heart because you got me four Grammys.
Sam Smith
#85. Upon accepting her Oscar for "Julia," 1978: "My dear colleagues, I thank you very very much for this tribute to my work. I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should.
Vanessa Redgrave
#86. We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just too much for consumers to figure out at once.
Keith Belling
#87. This whole generation of parents - I'm guilty of it too - does too much for their kids.
Julie Brown
#88. In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.
Harry S. Truman
#89. No dog is too much for me to handle. I rehabilitate dogs, I train people. I am the dog whisperer.
Cesar Millan
#90. He'd always prided himself on being more civilized than his brothers, but so much for that; he was becoming aroused in a damned sewer.
Larissa Ione
#92. As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
Henry Rollins
#93. Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.
Henry H. Fowler
#94. I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.
William Faulkner
#95. Just know that you can. I won't tell. I might not be able to do much for you, but I'll hold your secrets.
Nyrae Dawn
#96. Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand."
- Anna Karenina {Anna Karenina}
Leo Tolstoy
#97. Splat. Without thought, she'd thrown mud all over his face. So much for femme fatale.
He sputtered in disbelief, then roared, What the ever-livin' feck -
Kresley Cole
#98. You may be afraid. But the choice to love you is mine. Not yours. You don't get to make that choice for me. You can choose to not let me love you, but you can't tell me what's too much for me to handle. That's for me to decide.
Jasinda Wilder
#99. No one is exempt from trials and tribulations. In fact, this is often what happens to people God loves very much, for it is part of God's often mysterious and good plan for turning us into something great.
Timothy Keller
#100. But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.
Paula Cole
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