Top 100 Not Too Much Quotes
#1. Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland
#2. I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.
Josephine Lawrence
#3. I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?'
Mary Ellen Mark
#4. I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.
Cynthia Kenyon
#5. Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.
Fay Weldon
#6. A moment's fruition of a true felicity is enough and eternity not too much.
Coventry Patmore
#7. That is my favorite kind of integrated person. Some of each thing and not too much of any one.
Gabrielle Hamilton
#8. Don't give up all your romance, Anne," he whispered shyly, "a little bit is a good thing - not too much, of course, but keep a little of it, Anne, keep a little of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#9. A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted by circumstances, it finds all things vivid and comic. Life is free play fundamentally and would like to be free play altogether.
George Santayana
#10. Thou lovest like an infinite God when Thou lovest; Thou movest heaven and earth to save Thy loved ones. Thou becomest man, a babe, the vilest of men, covered with reproaches, dying with infamy and under the pangs of the cross; all this is not too much for an infinite love.
Francois Fenelon
#11. It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter
Lewis Strauss
#12. Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
George Herbert
#15. Daymark asks the right question. So we get it right the first time. We didn't want to overbuy or underbuy. They understood our business and our data. Daymark knew exactly which models we should order - not too much, not too little.
Mike Michaud
#16. Fear not, too much, an open enemy; He is consistent
always at his post; But watchful be of him who holds the key Of your own heart, and flatters you the most.
Andrew Jackson Downing
#17. I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.
Kacey Musgraves
#18. It is not too much to say I was piqued to the tonsils.
P.G. Wodehouse
#19. Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.
Chris Paul
#20. Don't give up all your romance Anne, a little of it is a good thing - not too much of course-but keep a little of it - Matthew Cuthbert
L.M. Montgomery
#21. Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
C.S. Lewis
#22. People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
Eleanor Clift
#23. I go out, but not too much. When I'm on tour, I just write a lot of music and sleep.
Wale
#24. It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
#25. Sweetheart, if it's not too much of an imposition, I would be forever beholden to you if you could kindly assume a reclining position so I can screw your brains out.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#26. She makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. It's quite a privilege to attend on her. It's not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!
Bram Stoker
#27. You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
Frank McCourt
#28. The challenge is to manage the Web in an open way-not too much bureaucracy, not subject to political or commercial pressures. The U.S. should demonstrate that it is prepared to share control with the world.
Tim Berners-Lee
#29. A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.
Kurt Lewin
#30. Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
Michael Pollan
#31. All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not too much contact with other kids. They constructed their own reality and they continue to do it. It's a funny breed, directors.
Stellan Skarsgard
#32. The call to protect life - and not merely life but another's identity; it is perhaps not too much to say another's soul - was obvious in its sacredness.
Paul Kalanithi
#33. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
Jonathan Ive
#34. For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.
Rebel Wilson
#35. To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can't learn. If you have too much, you will think you don't have to learn.
Eric Hoffer
#36. To be reminded that one is very much like other members of the animal kingdom is often funny ... though ... I do not too much mind being somewhat like a cat.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#37. I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
Nicolas Cage
#38. There is not too much left for me to do, but I am sure there are a couple of great fights out there for me. I have basically achieved my goals. There are a few fights the public wants to see, and that is really what is left for me.
Lennox Lewis
#39. I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.
Ringo Starr
#40. Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#41. The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
Margaret Drabble
#42. If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
Bruce Oldfield
#43. We say to girls: You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim to be successful but not too successful, otherwise you will threaten the man. If you are the breadwinner in your relationship with a man, pretend that you are not, especially in public, otherwise you will emasculate him. But
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#44. The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.
Michael Mandelbaum
#45. Did that hurt? On your lip?"
"Not too much. I said a few choice four-letter words, though.
Tammara Webber
#46. Trust not too much to appearances.
Virgil
#47. The sets on 'Defiance' are incredible. I've never really seen a set like this, where the world is so built around us. There's not too much left for us to have to imagine.
Stephanie Leonidas
#48. It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
Doris Lessing
#49. It's hard but it's not too much of a challenge because i'm doing what i love
Greyson Chance
#50. It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
John Howard
#51. When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
Natalie Cole
#52. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.
George Harrison
#53. I was a baseball player, I taught baseball, and all of a sudden I was in the business world. Now I used the baseball world to talk about their product. Not too much, just enough to keep going. Just be yourself and you'll never have a problem. That's what I did.
Willie Mays
#54. When I was a boy I used to dream of becoming
the village idiot.
I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the
happy idiot
able to get food easily
... and easy sympathy,
a planned confusion of not too much love or effort.
some would claim that I have succeeded.
Charles Bukowski
#55. Overcome your guilt, Kaladin. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself.' Protect, save, help - but know when to give up.
Brandon Sanderson
#56. A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
Naveen Andrews
#57. I'm not too much of a wild guy. I'm all about work, I'm all about studio.
Khalil
#58. In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
Mary Oliver
#59. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Kenneth Minogue
#60. She put her hand on my shoulder, and her eyes let me know, just crouch down, hold tight, there's a little bit of pain for you, but not too much.
Rebecca Lee
#61. It is not too much to say that the blacks in Georgia and the Carolinas made Sherman's march possible. Their help meant that Sherman's forces would not be traveling through hostile territory without supply lines. Rather, the soldiers were more like a huge guerilla force in friendly territory.
James W. Loewen
#62. Girls bat their eyelashes and act like they don't know anything in front of guys they like, or give a little bit of eye contact, but not too much, or a bit of touching. Or being coy. Sure, I do a bit of that.
Hilary Duff
#63. Indeed taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.
Brooke Foss Westcott
#64. Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.
Horace
#65. Praise me not too much,
Nor blame me, for thou speakest to the Greeks
Who know me.
Homer
#66. Agile project leaders help their team balance at the edge of chaos - some structure, but not too much; adequate documentation, but not too much; some up-front architecture work, but not too much. Finding these balance points is the "art" of agile leadership.
Jim Highsmith
#67. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. Once we get to Heaven we know everything there is to know. We remember every life we've ever lived. We recall everyone we've ever loved. There is much to know here, but there is not too much to learn. That's why we have to do our learning before we get here.
Kate McGahan
#69. If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Hippocrates
#70. I know where my heart stands, but Sydney doesn't have that reassurance. If time will give her that reassurance, then I'll give her time. Just not too much.
Colleen Hoover
#71. For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
Nigel Dennis
#72. Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
Brandon Sanderson
#73. I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.
Richard Pryor
#74. A song is no song unless the circumstance is free and fine. If a singer sing from a sense of duty or from seeing no way to escape,I had rather have none. Those only can sleep who do not care to sleep; and those only write or speak best who do not too much respect the writing or the speaking.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate ... I like some detail but not too much detail.
Sophie Blackall
#76. I just try to keep the same people I've had around me from Day One. Keep it a real small circle because if you do that, not too much is going to go bad for you.
Kevin Love
#77. It felt like too much. Not too much to have, just too much to contemplate. Commitments like boulders that were too heavy to carry.
Rainbow Rowell
#78. I like you, but not too much. I don't want to like anybody too much.
Sylvia Plath
#79. But Sneaky Pete was great. I didn't bug him about Gram. Not too much, anyway.
Evan Dando
#80. I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.
Tracie Peterson
#81. I like men who style themselves so that I can tell they give a damn about how they present themselves, but not too much as to say that's probably what they care about most.
Emma Ishta
#82. Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
#83. Float through life, just take it easy, not too much stress, just, float.
Freja Beha Erichsen
#84. She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to have a good pout about not being understood.
Terry Pratchett
#85. Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.
Iris Apfel
#86. Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.
Joseph Pilates
#87. Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood
#88. You can have ambition
But not too much
You should aim to be successful
But not too successful
Otherwise you will threaten the man
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#89. [M]ost people, most of the time, prefer to seek approval or security. [ ... ] Nonetheless, there are in all periods who feel themselves in some fashion to be apart. And it is not too much to say that humanity is very much in debt to such people, whether it chooses to acknowledge the debt or not.
Christopher Hitchens
#90. If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.
Ambrose Bierce
#91. There was not too much to do as a kid when we arrived in Germany. Playing basketball and listening to music gave me something to do.
Shaquille O'Neal
#92. Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.
Jonathan Sacks
#93. He put the good old cup of tea softly on the table by my bed, and I took a refreshing sip. Just right, as usual. Not too hot, not too sweet, not to weak, not too strong, not too much milk, and not a drop spilled in the saucer. A most amazing cove, Jeeves. So dashed competent in every respect.
P.G. Wodehouse
#94. There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Jack Prelutsky
#95. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.
Euripides
#96. Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
John Milton
#97. The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
A. J. Jacobs
#99. A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
Robert Frost
#100. Dem. Tempt not too much the hatred of my spirit, For I am sick when I do look on you.212 Hel. And I am sick when I look not on you.
William Shakespeare
