Top 93 Quotes About Going Too Far
#1. You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.
T. S. Eliot
#2. Somehow, this was one oddity too many. He could accept "Mind the Gap" and the Earl's Court, and even the strange library. But damn it, like all Londoners, he knew his Tube map, and this was going too far. "There isn't a British Museum Station," said Richard, firmly.
Neil Gaiman
#3. But the workingpeople, the common people, they won't allow it.' 'It's the common people who get most fun out of the torture and execution of great men ... If it's not going too far back I'd like to know who it was demanded the execution of our friend Jesus H. Christ.
John Dos Passos
#4. Asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.
Luke Kirby
#5. Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
Bill Griffith
#6. They say it's the responsibility of the media to look at government - especially the President - with a microscope. I don't argue with that, but when they use a proctoscope, it's going too far.
Richard M. Nixon
#7. If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.
A.A. Allen
#8. She believes that going too far is wrong. Yet she's not trying to prove her point; she's just living it out.
Travis Thrasher
#9. Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
Sarah Vowell
#10. In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
Dick Durbin
#11. We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
Jim Rohn
#12. It's not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can't please everyone, but personally, let's just leave it alone. It's going too far.
Keri Hilson
#13. At some point, we all have to decide how we are going to fail: by not going far enough, or by going too far. The only alternative for the most successful (maybe even the most fulfilled) people is the latter.
Harriet Rubin
#14. The eye is continually influenced by what it cannot detect; nay, it is not going too far, to say that it is most influenced by what it detects least. Let the painter define, if he can, the variations of lines on which depend the change of expression in the human countenance.
John Ruskin
#15. There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
Thomas Mann
#16. What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.
Diane Keaton
#17. Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
John Poindexter
#18. It would not be going too far to assert that ... conflict confronts every woman who ventures upon a career of her own and who is ... unwilling to pay for her daring with the renunciation of her femininity.
Karen Horney
#19. Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Umberto Eco
#20. We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.
Sumner Redstone
#21. It is impossible to fight bullies merely by saying they're going too far.
Robert Reich
#22. No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. But no service or hospitality? That's going too far.
Daniel Humm
#23. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
#24. Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight.
David Wong
#25. I had no idea what I was doing, I had no idea where I was going, but at some point I stopped - when to keep going would seem like I was going too far.
Chip Kidd
#26. Glenn Beck is offended! Glenn Beck thinks playing the Nazi card is going too far. Glenn Beck. this is a guy who uses more Swastika props and video of the Nuremberg rallies than the History Channel.
Lewis Black
#27. I'm always a little cautious, there's a few amendments that are out there that I think could do some damage, so I've been more concerned about over regulating, going too far.
Don Nickles
#28. Imagination is a safety net that catches you. There is no going too far, no need for a safe word inside your mind. This world is your creation.
K. Kiker
#29. If you sincerely want to know if you're "going too far," don't ask yourself, "Is this bad?" Instead ask yourself, "Is this pure?"
Jason Evert
#30. Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
Paul McCartney
#31. If I feel like I'm going too far in one direction, I just can it. It's a weird thing. Some of my songs might be cheesy; I try and keep it light. It's hard to explain.
Mac DeMarco
#32. Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean.
Brad Thor
#34. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go,
Wendy Owens
#35. He ate his supper without bread. A double helping and bread
that was going too far. The bread would do for tomorrow. The belly is a demon. It doesn't remember how well you treated it yesterday; it'll cry out for more tomorrow.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#37. There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.
Michael Lee West
#38. A rule of thumb with humor; if you worry that you might be going too far, you have already not gone far enough. If everybody laughs, you have failed.
Christopher Hitchens
#39. Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
Jean Cocteau
#40. May ya have the hindsight ta know where you've been, the foresight ta know where where you're going, and the insight ta know when you're going too far...
Shirley Bourget
#41. I'm often accused of 'going too far,' but I recognize that behind my desire to shock is an even stronger desire to evade the 'feminine' stereotype: 'You say women are afraid of mice? I'll show you! I'll eat the mouse!
Anne Beatts
#42. The problem for Rome, then, is how and when the intervention should be done with a sense of the possibility of going too far in limiting the freedom of theologians. This is not an easy time - neither for Rome nor for the theologians.
Godfried Danneels
#43. In Switzerland, we have a centuries-old tradition of living together in one confederation and one society. That holds us back from excesses. We are a civilized and enlightened community and, by practising multicultural tolerance, we manage to stop extreme developments from going too far.
Klaus Schwab
#44. This live action role playing of D and D is going too far, you know. Larps are insane. You might have been killed. Where are you from? Why are you so cold?" Lori "Kiss Of The Dragon Hunter.
Ellen Dawn Benefield
#45. People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house.
Ellen DeGeneres
#46. We've never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don't think it's going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
Ben Bernanke
#47. So my advice to startups in this particular category is if you're going to put your product in beta - put your business model in beta with it. Far too often we are too product focused and not business-model focused. That's one thing I definitely would have done differently with JotSpot.
Joe Kraus
#48. When you're a child you never figure a grownup is going to be jealous of you. It's the grownups who seem to have everything. Children give adults far too much credit.
Polly Horvath
#49. A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
Norman Reilly Raine
#50. This [Gang of Eight bill (S.744)] is far, far too many low-skilled workers that are going to take jobs and pull down wages of people unemployed and underemployed right now.
Jeff Sessions
#51. I'm not going to get drunk at a bar. There are younger girls who look up to me. So I do my best not to stray too far.
Ashley Greene
#52. There was always a slug on the lettuce.
This was too good to be true.
He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David.
He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet.
Being carful had kept him alive this far.
There was no reason to stop being careful now.
Charlie Higson
#53. There is a dead spot in the night, that coldest, blackest time when the world has forgotten evening and dawn is not yet a promise. A time when it is far too early to arise, but so late that going to bed makes small sense.
Robin Hobb
#54. The music business - and I guess you could say any artistic endeavor - usually rewards those who are on the leading edge of where everything is going, but you can't be too far.
Billy Corgan
#55. If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.
Tom Allen
#56. The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
Sherwood Boehlert
#57. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
Bob Johnson
#58. Going to a movie is a two-hour experience; at $7.50 for a ticket, you are valuing your time at far less than the minimum wage. If you don't understand the film, don't leave. If you understand it all too well and hate it, get out of your seat and walk up the aisle. You will feel empowered.
Gene Siskel
#59. Like everyone in the history of the world who has had a crush on his or her best friend, I was too scared to tell her, because if I did I might lose her completely. And the sharp bite of losing her completely would be far worse than the one-sided romantic arrangement we had going.
Josh Sundquist
#60. Because one of these days, someone's going to come along, someone who deserves your time and attention, someone who might really care about you, and you're going to be too far gone to even see what's right in front of your face. You're going to miss out on true love, Mandy.
Tracie Puckett
#61. I should have run away from you and started college and gone on without you. But I would always have regretted it if I didn't give this a shot.
- Tiffany
Jennifer Echols
#62. We don't ever want to shut down and say, I'm afraid to go that far down the road because there's going to be pain. There'll be beauty, too, and if you stop here, you stop all that.
Wayne Coyne
#63. Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.
Sarah Vowell
#65. You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we're going, we'd think it was too far.
Iyanla Vanzant
#66. Some people applaud my no nonsense approach to life. Others say my methods are "extreme". Where I'm headed and how I get there is between me and my God. So, if you don't know where I'm going, how can you suggest I'm taking things too far?
Carlos Wallace
#67. I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. But you can't live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you're dead already.
Jennifer Echols
#69. I've come too far to stop now. I may be knocked down, but I'm not knocked out. I'm going to get back up again. I know I'm a victor, not a victim.
Joel Osteen
#70. We've pretended too much in our family, Luke, and hidden far too much. I think we're all going to pay a high price for our inability to face the truth.
Pat Conroy
#71. I was going to have to start thinning out her peroxide. She was losing brain cells far too rapidly.
Jaymin Eve
#72. I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.
Kirsten Vangsness
#73. With two thousand years of Christianity behind him ... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#74. Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
Julie Andrews
#75. May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to know where you are going, and the insight to know when you have gone too far.
Heather Lyons
#76. If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.
Andrew Mason
#77. Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.
Meg Cabot
#78. I've never been one to look too far ahead since I came back into the England side and I'm not going to change that view.
Graham Thorpe
#79. I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?
Jeff Ross
#80. I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.
Ed Parker
#81. You aren't going to die for me," I said fiercely, shaking him a little, using up half a container of magic to heal everything in him faster.
His smile was red. "Don't worry so, darling. I'm far too pretty to die.
Anne Zoelle
#82. I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans.
Jill Shalvis
#83. Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
Zoe Saldana
#84. I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them.
Richard Russo
#85. John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough
Kevin Rudd
#86. Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
Norman Vincent Peale
#87. Success involves going to where others believe is too far.
Jeffrey Fry
#88. My uncles used to call me 'Devil Child,' or 'Triple' for triple six. They used to tell my brother Chris that they were going to get the demons out of him because he was also a little crazy. But to me, they'd just be like, 'You're too far gone. There's no exorcising you anymore.'
Liam Hemsworth
#89. I love going out dancing. There is nothing better than letting your hair down and staying up far too late, is there?
Liberty Ross
#90. I always consult five to ten people who are hardcore fans, to see how far I can push a role. When they go, "Wait a second, you can't do that! That's a sin!," you go, "Okay, fine, we're not going to do that. We tried too far."
Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
#91. In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.
Joss Whedon
#92. This sense of possibility might not last, of course Nothing ever did. But she wasn't going to spoil it by looking too far ahead. They were safe in the Library, and the Library would endure.
Genevieve Cogman
#93. The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...'
'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?'
'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.
Agatha Christie
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