Top 100 Quotes About Too Far
#1. The pendulum had swung too far, as always, and now was swinging back, and the horror of intolerance had been loosed upon the land.
Clifford D. Simak
#2. Never trust a husband too far, nor a bachelor too near.
Helen Rowland
#4. The professionals resemble and recognize each other by virtue of the stigmata that their trade has left upon them. They are like the dog in the fable, whose collar has made an indelible mark around his neck. The amateur is the shaggy wolf whom no dog had better trust too far.
Jacques Barzun
#5. Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Kevin Kelly
#6. Compete with yourself; you have no knowledge about the degree of gifting others might have. Don't decide to slow down because you have gone too far and everyone is behind you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#7. How she loved it when he sprinted right over the lines and reduced her boundaries to smithereens.
Chloe no longer had any fears of being controlled and Chase no longer held back to make sure he didn't push her too far. All that remained was the sweet ecstasy of trust.
And pure love.
Bella Andre
#8. Some say there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon But is that too far for you? Wouldn't you prefer your glimmers a little closer? Around the corner perhaps? Or even better on the kitchen table? Or in the fridge? Where you can see or hear or touch or smell them and take heart and take hope
Tom Skinner
#9. I don't know that there is too far, actually. I think there's only too bad. If it's bad you've gone too far.
Kenneth Branagh
#10. 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
#11. You pushed it too far. You shouldn't take the same risk again."
"Says the guy who got shot.
Joss Stirling
#12. We have books and films where mice and hobbits and dwarves and children can save the world, and that's perfectly acceptable. But a 120lb woman save the galaxy? YOU GO TOO FAR, SIR.
Ash Gray
#13. Codependency is about normal behaviors taken too far. It's about crossing lines.
Melody Beattie
#14. History's shown that in this world, when you take your ideals too far, all you ever create is Hell.
Ken Akamatsu
#15. Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business.
Mark Cuban
#16. You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.
Patrick Rothfuss
#17. When I was twelve, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report, "Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far," and this was often the case.
Oliver Sacks
#18. But it is not really necessary to look too far into the future; we see enough already to be certain that it will be magnificent. Only let us hurry and open the roads.
David McCullough
#19. The artist must know how far to go too far.
Jean Cocteau
#20. The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets ... as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.
Stephen King
#21. The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.
Clyde Kluckhohn
#22. Yahoo has gone too far in wrongfully accusing us of a conspiracy that doesn't exist. If they are having problems retaining engineers, they should be looking at the internal sources of employee dissatisfaction rather than trying to cover that up with this legal action.
Jonathan Sacks
#23. She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
Joanne Harris
#24. I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.
Robert Breault
#25. Should've known when I met her mama. The big, fat acorn didn't fall too far from the big, fat tree.
Johnny Shaw
#26. I realized that one cannot reveal oneself without mannerism, without some evident trace of one's personality. But all the same one should not go too far in that direction ...
Georges Braque
#27. Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.
Diana Trilling
#28. It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead.
Meryl Streep
#29. I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'
Rebecca Makkai
#30. Augustine's final verdict on the philosophers of Greece
and Rome was that, although they had made various mistakes, "nature itself has not permitted them to wander too far from the path of truth" in their judgments about the supreme good (De Civitate Dei 19.1).
Alasdair MacIntyre
#31. We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go.
Jim Rohn
#32. That mini heart attack you have when you realize you tipped your chair back just a little too far.
John Steinbeck
#33. 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
#34. No one is too far away to be cared for, or to care.
Martin Baker
#35. To be audacious with tact, you have to know to what point you can go too far.
Jean Cocteau
#37. The sun is 91 million miles away;
not too far, not too close. Be like that
Sarah Gorham
#38. Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Aneurin Bevan
#39. Ah, man. (Talon)
What? (Wulf)
Friggin' Fabio alert. (Talon)
Hey, you're not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf)
Bite me, Viking. (Talon)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#40. I don't want to go too far away from what I'm doing now because that would alienate my audience.
Charlotte Church
#41. In going too far, they [presidents] have taken away the individual rights of American citizens.
Dick Durbin
#43. She rose and she remembered, remembered and rose, until she had gone too far for fear to snatch her back.
Peni R. Griffin
#44. Maybe I went a bit too far, but that's what people want now. There's an expectation that children be treated poorly in their literature. Everyone wants to see children treated badly. So that ... well, so that when they triumph over evil we all feel lifted up. It's inspirational.
Tony Burgess
#45. But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?" Shadow hesitated. "Truths," he said. "I've come too far for more lies.
Neil Gaiman
#46. If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
James A. Baldwin
#47. 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
#48. Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.
Thomas Sowell
#50. Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating foie gras, defending nuclear energy and GM plants; feminists find I am not enough of a woman; anarchists a petit-bourgeois who has sold out because I believe in universal suffrage.
Michel Onfray
#51. Our party may have swung too far right at various times.
Ed Gillespie
#52. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.
Rick Allen
#54. Being creative and playing with your content during the holidays is a great idea. But straying too far from your fundamental brand (from address, logo, etc.) can be a dangerous game. Your recipients need to be able to recognize you during this busy time of year.
Paul Ford
#55. I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.
Dexter Fletcher
#56. I had a boom box, but I didn't go too far with it because I had a really, really big one. It was like the size of a suitcase, and I was just a little kid.
Michael Rapaport
#57. 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
#58. Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance ... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound
#59. 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
#60. If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
Donny Osmond
#61. I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.
Klaus Schulze
#62. The experience of the next life is too far away to really be concerned with. It will be an outgrowth of this incarnation and what happens between birth and death.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.
Daniel Woodrell
#64. 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
#65. It's easy when you're climbing something. Don't look down, or even too far ahead. Focus on where you are in that moment.
Sheba Karim
#66. I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West
#67. I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.
Jo Nesbo
#68. Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
Cormac McCarthy
#69. Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth
Albert Camus
#70. In that place things begin to wear away even as they are built; the living die a little more each day. The sun is too far away; light slides endlessly into night; fire and love consume themselves; the heart tries to warm itself with ashes.
Patricia A. McKillip
#71. I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
Larry Bird
#72. a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.
Lindsey Drager
#73. It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#74. Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
Garth Ennis
#75. There's days when I'd love everybody to relize that things have gone too far, and we need to be born again ... but there are other days when I think the world deserves to be destroyed. Why should I help anybody? Everybody's stepped on me my whole life.
Marilyn Manson
#76. 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
#77. But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.
Haruki Murakami
#78. This gentleman is heading for Mineral County in West Virginia. Near a place called Keyser, not too far from the Maryland line." Which all meant nothing to Reacher, except that West Virginia sounded one step better than regular Virginia.
Lee Child
#79. I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.
Elvis Presley
#80. Guys like this Henry always pushed even the most unfunny joke two steps too far . . . then looked wounded and misunderstood when someone yelled at them. And it was always Wassa matter? and it was Can'tcha take a joke? and it was Why don'tcha lighten up a little?
Stephen King
#81. One of my tendencies is to let the ball drift too far forward in my stance, and it's something I've been working on with David Leadbetter.
Ernie Els
#82. We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.
Brian Henson
#83. Marriage is all right, but I think it's carrying love a little bit too far.
Texas Guinan
#84. Going too far is half the pleasure of not getting anywhere.
Bill Griffith
#85. Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.
Jay Leno
#86. Now, there's a desire for order, authority coming from a feeling that society has gone too far to the side of individualism and liberalism.
Marion Marechal-Le Pen
#87. I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.
Colbie Caillat
#88. It's so funny; I grew up in the Midwest, I have two older brothers, and you're just as competitive playing football as you are eating pickled eggs, or trying to kill zombies. As long as you don't take it too far, I think it's a good way for people to relate.
Jose Pablo Cantillo
#89. To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?
David Twohy
#90. Fiction inhabits the zone between the real and the impossible. The tug of those two poles is what gives it motion, vitality. Tethering fiction too tightly to the real produces plodding, lifeless stories. Letting it float too far from that anchor produces stories that are arbitrary and unpersuasive.
Vinnie Tesla
#91. My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
Greg Grunberg
#92. There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.
Richard Branson
#93. I've been troubled with weak moments lately, 'tis true. I've been drinky once this month already, and I did not go to church a-Sunday, and I dropped a curse or two yesterday; so I don't want to go too far for my safety. Your next world is your next world, and not to be squandered offhand." "I
Thomas Hardy
#94. It's dangerous to get too far from what they identify you with.
Jimmy Rushing
#95. 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
#96. I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.
Derek Blasberg
#97. In our haste to modernize under the banner of science, we seem to have gone too far in casting out all mystery and magic from our world.
Denny Sargent
#98. When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Eustace Budgell
#99. If it takes you 20 or 25 years to establish yourself in one field, you really ought to be careful not to stray too far.
Joshua Lederberg
#100. I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.
Jennifer Donnelly
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