Top 1200 Asking Too Much Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise. Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where "I admire" is but a synonyme for "I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ," is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!

Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make mistakes.

I know unless I'm true to myself I couldn't be happy. Too much emphasis is placed today on externals and too little on character.

One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback.

Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?'

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

If you were asking me how it is to be a Muslim in America, it's much harder to be a North African in France than to be a foreigner here in America.

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?

There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.

That's the danger of having too much success. You lose that magic, that feeling of not being in control, which I feel now, it's too controlled.

It's hard to understand the life that I live and rationalize some of the things that I do. I don't need someone questioning every move that I make, asking me why I don't just relax. When there's no one asking me those types of questions... to me, it's peaceful.

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched.

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.

I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably, it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person; he doesn't relate to the person.

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed.

Where The Wild Things Are we were asking a lot of a 9-year-old kid. We were asking a lot of any actor.

I've worked on other shows where the sense is like, "Well, don't change it too much," you know? But on this one [ Too Much Tuna], Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] - beyond being amazing performers - are also writers, and wanted to keep improving upon the show, particularly the play within a play. I think the writing just got funnier and funnier.

One day the worlds male population will spontaneously combust because they've kept too much stuff in for too long.

A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.

But Peter had seen too much, knew too well that men-kind didn't need an excuse to be cruel and murder one another.

It's important to take your mind off football; otherwise, you become too obsessed, and you look into things too much.

Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those - too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.

You are too smart and too knowledgeable to believe much of the nonsense you have been espousing on global warming and many other issues.

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

I'm not asking for more entitlement programs; I'm asking for more enterprise.

I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.

Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty.

Too much screaming in Congress. Too much screaming everywhere.

I've never read a review from anybody that said, "I don't want to watch this anymore because it's just too funny. I laughed too much."

As for the American child's classic problem - too much mother, too little father - that would be cured by an equalization of parental responsibility.

You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go.

I never challenged control of the band. Basically, all I did was start asking questions. There's an old adage in Hollywood amongst managers: 'Pay your acts enough money that they don't ask questions.' And I started asking questions.

Manipulate your diet until you find something that works for you. I think people get bogged down with trying to go to the gym and doing too much cardio and lifting too much weight. Really, if you're eating well and eating at the right times, and consuming the right things, it's really helpful.

Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride.

A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.

You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing: the therapist is too disinterested, a little too aloof, a little too inactive. They're not really interested in the person, he doesn't relate to the person. All these things I've written so much about. That's why I've made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

Future shock is a sickness which comes from too much change in too short a time. It's the feeling that nothing is permanent anymore.

It has been said that the primary function of schools is to impart enough facts to make children stop asking questions. Some, with whom the schools do not succeed, become scientists... and I never stopped asking questions.

I don't think you can ever do too much. Life would be so boring if you didn't have these, like, holes to fall into and climb out of. I want to do everything. I just want everything. I don't think you can ever have too much.

Asking for advice about what you should write is a little like asking for help getting dressed. I can you tell you what I think looks good, but you have to wear it. And as every fashion victim knows, very few people look good in everything.

People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted against it.

Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.

I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.