Top 100 Too Often Quotes
#1. Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Charles E. Wilson
#2. The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it for a slavish submission to any power but reason.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#3. In particular, I'd realized that although I possessed all the elements of a happy life, too often I took my circumstances for granted and allowed myself to become overly vexed by petty annoyances or fleeting worries. I'd wanted to appreciate my life more, and to live up to it better.
Gretchen Rubin
#4. Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.
Charles Shaar Murray
#5. I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
Ken Burns
#6. Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
Colin Powell
#7. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
Robert D. Hales
#9. Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
David Pratt
#10. Too often, parents today allow their desire to please their child to govern their parenting. If your relationship with your child is governed by your own desire to be loved by him or her, the odds are good that you will not achieve even that objective.
Leonard Sax
#11. Doctors believe that straining too much or too often on the toilet can also seriously increase the risk of varicose veins, a stroke, or defecation syncope - fainting on the toilet.
Giulia Enders
#12. It is bad for a man to be obeyed too often.
Robert Shea
#13. Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.
Kenneth Keating
#14. It is in their interests to have a stable, skilled labour force, a permanently well-adjusted complex, because the human complex (the collective worker) of an enterprise is also a machine which cannot, without considerable loss, be taken to pieces too often and renewed with single new parts.
Antonio Gramsci
#15. It did not often happen; for Mr. John Knightley had really a great regard for his father-in-law, and generally a strong sense of what was due to him; but it was too often for Emma's charity, especially as there was all the pain of apprehension frequently to be endured, though the offense came not.
Jane Austen
#16. Contemplating from the confines of a desk the reality of death is worthwhile, but only moderately enriching. Too often do I resort to it; rarely do I get with death in the ring.
Richard Ronald Allan
#17. Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.
Michael Leunig
#18. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.
Norman Foster
#19. All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#20. You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.
Yoko Ono
#21. Discussions of Western civilization are too often confined to works of high art that reflect a relatively narrow element of public taste and experience.
Ibn Warraq
#22. The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
George Clinton
#23. Too often, bridal shows are boring - I love including a small, unexpected element to make it interesting, like the removable skirts and umbrellas in seasons past.
Reem Acra
#24. The two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.
Patricia Ireland
#25. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L'Amour
#26. If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#27. Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.
Rebecca Lee Crumpler
#28. I had everything I could possibly want
yet I was failing to appreciate it. Bogged down in petty complaints and passing crises, weary of struggling with my own nature, I too often failed to comprehend the splendor of what I had.
Gretchen Rubin
#30. The belief may be too often mistaken, but the illusion of coming into direct contact with the past is intoxicating and persuasive, and can result in an interpretation that carries conviction. Sometimes confidence is all that's needed.
Charles Rosen
#31. I am quite quiet: I don't feel as though I have to express myself with words too often. Maybe I should do more.
Sean Bean
#32. We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people.
Reuel Howe
#33. Too often, shared visions really mean, "I have a vision; you share it!"
Andy Hargreaves
#34. Far too often, the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side's outpost against the other - it should function as a bridge between them.
Henry A. Kissinger
#35. I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.
Hugh Laurie
#36. The marks we leave are too often scars.
John Green
#37. Too often, I think, children are required to write before they have anything to say. Teach them to think and read and talk without self-repression, and they will write because they cannot help it.
Anne Sullivan Macy
#38. Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.
Earl Weaver
#39. A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian.
"Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry
Oscar Wilde
#40. It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.
John Brown
#41. Too often we make the mistake of remembering what we should forget-our hurts, failures and disappointments -and we forget what we should remember-our victories, accomplishments and the times we have made it through.
Joel Osteen
#42. If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
Mignon McLaughlin
#43. Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.
Andrew Cuomo
#44. It [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality.
Spencer W. Kimball
#45. 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
#46. All too often, parents and kids struggle to find an empathetic ear when confronting bullying situation; these escalate and too often result in marginalization, on top of what may well be a daily gauntlet of harassment and abuse that is fundamentally torture.
Lee Hirsch
#47. All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Julia Cameron
#48. We should be the natural home for young mothers. But we're not. Because too often we sound like people who think the only good mother is a married mother.
Francis Maude
#49. The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness
too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.
Edith Wharton
#50. It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.
Noam Chomsky
#51. Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
Elizabeth Warren
#52. Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#53. I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.
Sam Hamill
#54. Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.
Harvey MacKay
#55. The judge is forced for the most part to reach his audience through the medium of the press whose reporting of judicial decisions is all too often inaccurate and superficial.
Irving R. Kaufman
#56. This is not a romance - I have too often faced the music of life to the tune of hardship to waste time in snivelling and gushing over fancies and dreams [author's introduction]
Miles Franklin
#57. We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.
John Ortberg
#58. The problem is you can't wear your old shoes too often because people say, 'You're still wearing that shoe?'
Jochen Zeitz
#59. Too often it is fear that guides our actions when compassion would better serve.
Dawn Hammill
#60. Immigrants aren't the reason wages haven't gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.
Barack Obama
#61. I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#62. Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
Jeff Miller
#63. Lord knows
and we both know
that too many wrongs have been committed in the name of religion ... But you're not here in the name of religion. Religion is an organization. Faith is within ... Catholic, cattolico
it means universal. Too often we forget that.
Heather Graham
#64. A line from Bobby Bare's country song explains what too often happens with acquisitions: I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few.
Warren Buffett
#65. Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.
John Wooden
#66. Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to which all can look for salvation in adversity, instead of allowing them to subsist against the day of danger when their aid may be required
Thucydides
#67. Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#68. Far too often, children with developmental disorders are diagnosed solely on the basis of their observable behavior, slotted into broad diagnostic pigeonholes and provided generalized treatments that may not always meet their specific needs.
Aditi Shankardass
#69. I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.
Jennifer Carpenter
#70. It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.
Lester B. Pearson
#71. Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.
Neal Boortz
#72. Too often have we believed the old lie that says we're bad, we're perverted, we're abominations. But those who spread the lie don't know. They don't know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.
William J. Mann
#73. We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning.
(from the foreword in The War I survived Was Vietnam by Michael Uhl)
Steve Rees
#74. If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
Simon Van Booy
#75. One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#76. My dear young lady, crime, like death, is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims.
Charles Dickens
#77. Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
Adrienne Rich
#78. Alas, all too often, the dream turns into a mud puddle. I am left looking at a disaster. What to do! Keep working. I ask the Almighty for help. That frees me ...
Jules Olitski
#79. One of the problems with Marco's [Rubio] foreign policy is he has far too often supported Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama undermining governments in the Middle East that have helped radical Islamic terrorists.
Ted Cruz
#80. If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.
Marvin Gaye
#81. Too often, ideas meant to yield a certain practice are instead transported into the academy, as fare for 'enriching' a curriculum and, of course, generating jobs for the growing professoriat.
Murray Bookchin
#82. Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
Aldous Huxley
#83. A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters.
Marshall McLuhan
#84. Too often, what we want is the stuff of God. We want protection. We want his provision. We want to be defended when we're dishonored. We want to be helped when we serve. We want what God can bring us, but do we really want him?
Mark Hall
#85. When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see
there are no "good" people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others" ...
Kathleen Tessaro
#86. All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
Joseph Sobran
#87. Don't think of me too often ... Just live well. Just live
Jojo Moyes
#88. Happily ever after?"
"If justice doesn't triumph and love doesn't make the circle in entertainment fiction, what's the point? Real life sucks too often.
Nora Roberts
#89. Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
Alphonse Karr
#90. State government has too often been used to look out for the insiders and not the citizens. This has insulated poverty from progress, and need from remedy.
Ernie Fletcher
#91. Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.
Michael Ende
#92. It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
W. Somerset Maugham
#93. People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.
Nora Roberts
#94. Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
Helen Clark
#95. Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.
Susan Neiman
#97. We go to Christ for forgiveness, and then too often look to the law for power to fight our sins.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. The world is in a mad dash of personal peace and affluence. Sadly, too often the evangelical church is not much different. Of course, we want our children to become Christians. But that is just an addition to the all-consuming goal, that they would attain their own personal peace and affluence.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#99. In show business the saying seems too often true: it isn't enough to succeed; someone else must fail.
Gene Tierney
#100. All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.
Thomas Sowell
