Top 100 Too Many Quotes
#1. Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.
Katarina Witt
#2. For too many families, the aftershock of the war in Afghanistan will be felt every day, most probably for the rest of their lives. I know because I've looked into the eyes and the faces of grieving mothers.
Ross Kemp
#3. In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.
Paul Reubens
#4. The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically and burning too much oil.
James Lovelock
#5. How many times have you been called an abomination?" he whispers. "A monster? Worthless?"
Too many times.
Marie Lu
#6. Sometimes people leave us because staying becomes an impossibility. Because the world just gets too small. Or, sometimes, because there is just one boat, and too many hands ... Because maybe, life can be a bit bigger than it exists today. And because, somewhere else, there may be another boat.
Collier Lumpkin
#7. Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
Boris Johnson
#8. When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of something that you know you've done too many times before, and there's no rhyme or reason for it. It's something quite different from being nervous. It's almost paralysing.
Billie Whitelaw
#9. I've seen too many people give up on love too fast. Walking away from relationships doesn't provide the hoped-for relief, bring solutions, or simplify life. Rather, it piles on more problems through the lingering resentment and finger-pointing.
Gary Chapman
#10. He opened the first letter, No "Dear Mr. Woods." It was a page full of profanities. There was something oddly refreshing about honest, to-the-point hate mail. No hypocrisy and forced politeness. Too many letters ripped you to shreds, then closed off 'Sincerely yours.
Randy Alcorn
#11. The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#12. That guy just loaded our box in the trunk. He's getting in. Follow him!" she shouted
"I can't--too many cars in my exit lane."
"We're in a SUV; intimidate someone!
Marvin Wiebener
#13. Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras
Karen Traviss
#14. The world is filled with too many of us who are inclined to indicate our love with an announcement or declaration. True love is a process. True love requires personal action. Love must be continuing to be real. Love takes time.
Marvin J. Ashton
#15. If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
Yunjin Kim
#16. This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Dennis Kucinich
#17. There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.
Richard Brautigan
#18. We all know more than we give ourselves credit for. The problem is, there's too much surface shit that gets in the way, too many clouds obscuring our thoughts, filling us with worry and doubt and fear. It stops us from tapping deeper within ourselves.
J.R. Rain
#19. If Jesus loves the church, you and I should, too. We can't use the excuse that the church has messed up too many times or that we're disillusioned. Jesus is the only person who has the right to disown and give up on the church. But He never has. And He never will.
Joshua Harris
#20. In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.
Christopher Hitchens
#21. Too many are focused on rewriting the past, invent the future!
Philippe Kahn
#22. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
#23. Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#24. Of late the three of them wouldn't even let him dry the dishes because he'd dropped too many of them on the floor. He'd done that on purpose, since it was useful to be considered inept when it came to chore division,
Margaret Atwood
#25. It was a sunny, beautiful day.a day you felt good to be alive. Tobad amy Cahill was surrounded by the dead. Amy bowed her head and squeezed Her eyes shut. She was only sixteen, but she had attended too many funerals. She had said to many goodbyes
Jude Watson
#26. Too many regrets. Lost chances - and with each one passing the less human we all became, and the deeper into the nightmare of power we all sank.
Steven Erikson
#27. I don't remember too many rounds where you get shots given to you. Usually, ones are taken away.
Stuart Appleby
#28. I admire you. You have learned to rise with the wind, rather than fight it. Too many people struggle to become what is expected of them, when, as we both know, what is expected of us is rarely what we desire.
C.W. Gortner
#29. You young men have too many jokes. When there are no jokes you've nothing left.
Henry James
#30. I seen too many you guys. If you had two bits in the worl', why you'd be in gettin' two shots of corn with it and suckin' the bottom of the glass.
John Steinbeck
#31. You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it's got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid.
Jen Sincero
#32. Too many people spend more time planning how to get the job than on how to become productive and successful in that job.
Zig Ziglar
#33. For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre
Norton Juster
#34. We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.
Ed Rendell
#35. I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.
Jerry West
#36. Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Vance Havner
#37. We've been sold a dream of savings and investing that had no basis in any history or reality. We were participants in a vast experiment, a hope that personal finance and investments would do it all for us. We now know that for all too many people, it did not.
Helaine Olen
#38. All he'd learned was that love was a jewel with too many facets to count. Strength and weakness running side by side through it. And that no one could give or take it with any less than an open hand.
Nora Roberts
#39. Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.
Steve Brown
#40. My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
Harlan Coben
#41. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.
Kele Moon
#42. If you let too many cooks in the kitchen it could cloud your vision of what you want to do.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#43. The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.
Julian Lincoln Simon
#44. You both make each other want to be better people, and that's a feckin' rare thing. Far too many couples drown each other in their own selfishness these days.
R.J. Prescott
#45. For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
Mario Cuomo
#46. I have not known of too many people who found Christ on their deathbeds. When we come to Christ in our youth, a life is saved. When we come in old age, a soul is salvaged and life eternal is assured; but the opportunity to live a life for Christ has been lost.
Billy Graham
#47. Too many people are missing their destiny a year at a time because they're too scared to think in decades!"
(p. 127)
Pete Greig
#48. Not too many people know how life could be best used, it is a millennial dilemma, that has troubled souls of men for many, many generations.
Sunday Adelaja
#49. Then he explained that only one criterion mattered when picking a job - fast growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them.
Sheryl Sandberg
#50. Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.
Thomas Sowell
#51. It is not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do , it is that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have.
Gary Keller
#52. Poetry is very crafted. You can't have too many words. It needs compression. It has to be spare, just the right number of words.
Barbara Feldon
#53. If I had to pull an all-nighter studying for a test or too many looming deadlines had me pulling out my hair, I wouldn't end up with just some trendy coffee addiction. I'd end up in a mini-coma, face down in the middle of the studio or on the floor of the community showers.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#54. IN MY EXPERIENCE, SUSAN, WITHIN THEIR HEADS TOO MANY HUMANS SPEND A LOT OF TIME IN THE MIDDLE OF WARS THAT HAPPENED CENTURIES AGO.
Terry Pratchett
#55. Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?
David Pearce
#56. When you're obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you'll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.
Evan Williams
#57. I've read too many books to believe what I am told.
Suheir Hammad
#58. Since 1946, the Cubs have had two problems: They put too few runs on the scoreboard and the other guys put too many. So what is the new management improving? The scoreboard.
George Will
#59. And Robespierre, the Incorruptible, who loved us so much he cut off our heads so we would not be troubled by too many thoughts.
Jennifer Donnelly
#60. She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.
Nora Roberts
#61. Brownies were like spare batteries. One could never have too many in the house.
Darynda Jones
#62. For the Christian man to reason that God does not want him involved in politics because there are too many evil men in government is as insensitive as for a Christian doctor to turn his back on an epidemic because there are too many germs there.
Mark Hatfield
#63. I want everyone to know I'm coming out of retirement because it's time to free the MMA world of the virus that's known as Tito Ortiz. We've been suffering through his boring fights for too many years, and it's about time that someone beats it out of him once and for all.
Stephan Bonnar
#64. The problem with human beings is we think we can wear too many hats at once. It's not possible. It's an outright fashion disaster.
Joan Bauer
#65. There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
David Zayas
#66. I am simply the most conspicuous part of a large, thoroughly dedicated and professional staff that extends from just behind these cameras, across this country and around the world, in too many instances, in places of grave danger and personal hardship. They're family to me.
Tom Brokaw
#67. It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.
Paul Theroux
#68. These all sounded really bad, but they turned out to be good. If they had sounded really good, there would have been too many people working on them.
Sam Altman
#69. Perhaps depression is caused by asking oneself too many unanswerable questions.
Miriam Toews
#71. Too many men work on parts of things. Doing a job to completion, satisfies me.
Richard Proenneke
#72. Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
Andrew Dice Clay
#73. I think there are too many smart people pursuing internet stuff, finance, and law. That is part of the reason why we haven't seen as much innovation.
Elon Musk
#74. If there are too many competitors, even if you're the best it's a lot harder to win.
Tony Hsieh
#75. While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.
Jerry Saltz
#76. But for the invert vice begins, not when he establishes a relationship (for too many reasons may govern that), but when he takes his pleasure with women.
Marcel Proust
#77. When I went to Paris, I had a lot of ideas about it that were formed in the sort of ether that flows about if you watch too many recent Woody Allen movies or took French classes as a kid. I was certainly full of those.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#78. The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Bill Veeck
#79. So one always starts a journey in a strange land
taking too many precautions, until one tires of the exertion and abandons care in the worst spot of all.
Graham Greene
#80. There are too many things I find it difficult to say 'no' to.
Tom Stoppard
#81. The state dinner is almost a formula, but you try to make it interesting. You try not to overload it with too many political types. You try to get a cross section.
Barbara Bush
#82. The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
Marya Mannes
#83. I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too little caution.
John Corey Whaley
#84. Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.
Rachel Caine
#85. Choose your battles. If rapid development is truly top priority, don't shackle your developers by insisting on too many priorities at once.
Steve McConnell
#86. The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.
Robert Greenwald
#87. Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.
John Piper
#88. It is the attendance at a great meal, with one too many courses and two too many glasses of wine, that makes civilization spin, romance bloom and friendship last.
John Mariani
#89. There are many images which I miss on purpose. I've done too many of them before and photographing them again doesn't change the world, or me.
Jim Goldberg
#90. I get asked enough questions, I try not to ask too many questions.
Derek Jeter
#91. When I got home I peered down at the lobster to see how he was doing. The inner plastic bag was sucked tight around him and clouded up. It looked like something out of an eighties made-for-TV movie, with some washed-up actress taking too many pills and trying to off herself with a Macy's bag.
Julie Powell
#92. I'm sorry, I said, although by this point the words felt like a cheap shirt that has lost its shape after too many washings.
Kate Karyus Quinn
#94. We Robertses have too many teeth for our mouths.
Emma Roberts
#95. Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long, and for no truly good law enforcement reason.
Eric Holder
#96. watching TV and playing solitaire is not a proper life. It's not living. It's killing time, and that's hardly the same. You start asking yourself too many questions when your day is reduced to these rote activities that accomplish nothing. You start to wonder
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#97. I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.
Barney Frank
#98. Too many people think that if you are nice, you will be eaten alive in today's marketplace.
Robin S. Sharma
#99. When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.
Henry Winkler
#100. He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage
Tamora Pierce
