A Quote by Christopher Hitchens

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

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Christopher Hitchens
American - Author
April 13, 1949 - December 15, 2011

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

Kevin Rudd

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Shame tells you when you've gone too far. Then you try if it's okay to go too far. And it might be so that shame was right. You can never, never know that.

Karl Ove Knausgard

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Andrew Mason

[Buckminster Fuller] started talking about it far enough afterwards, an audience that was far enough from when they - when the air flow and the Zephyr and these cars in the time period that were made by mainstream automakers. It was far enough in the future, far enough after that point that nobody really bothered to fact-check.

Jonathon Keats

We all have to decide how we are going to fail, by not going far enough or by going too far.

Sumner Redstone

When Jerry Springer thinks you've gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Colin Powell

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

I always try not to look too far ahead. I just look far enough to know where I'm going next.

Brian Ortega

I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel with 'Venom.' I'm not trying to go too far to the left or too far to the right. Sometimes I step outside the box and it might lose people a little bit, so this time I'm going straight up the middle. I'm coming with some hard stuff.

Chamillionaire

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture, but there's a limit to how far we can take that.

Megyn Kelly

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

Megyn Kelly

Don't look too far in the future, don't worry about how you're going to have enough time or enough money or enough smarts; the "how?" is up to God. Just put your whole focus on this moment, doing this baby step at this moment; and then once you finish that one, God and the angels will give you the next assignment and so on and so forth.

Doreen Virtue

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.