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Since I make my living as a literary journalist, not a book scout, I spend inordinate amounts of time either reading or writing.
— Michael Dirda
These pigeons seemed to have an inordinate amount of room on their legs.
— Susan Elizabeth Curnow
Like most fat people who've been lectured about diet and exercise since childhood, I actually know an inordinate amount about nutrition and fitness.
— Lindy West
Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.
— Baruch Spinoza
Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil.
— William Shakespeare
Rest from inordinate desire or knowledge, for therein is found much distraction and deceit.
— Thomas A Kempis
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.
— Pat Conroy
Poor people are as much in danger from an inordinate desire towards the wealth of the world as rich from an inordinate delight in it.
— Matthew Henry
Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.
— Bernard Of Clairvaux
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.
— Dick Cavett
Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our comfort in him,
— Matthew Henry
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
— William Hazlitt
Nevermore Tree was gargantuan, a word which here means 'having attained an inordinate amount of botanical volume.
— Lemony Snicket
101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:
We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. — Summersdale Publishers
We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition. — Summersdale Publishers
Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Great periods of poetry begin with an inordinate self-consciousness, and only gradually attain to the natural.
— Mark Van Doren
Nina felt an inordinate pleasure, a pleasure that seemed to creep up on her the way the mud oozed through her barefoot toes.
— Neil Jordan
There's an inordinate amount of attention put on actors. Some people want to make their lives public, but that doesn't mean everybody does.
— Grace Park
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
— Douglas Adams
Inordinate love creates inordinate, uncontrollable anguish if anything goes wrong with the object of our greatest hope.
— Timothy Keller
I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families.
— Rob McKenna
You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.
— Eoin Colfer
God has an inordinate fondness for stars and also for beetles. The small and the very far away.
— Kelly Link
But certainly, their lives are such as very often produce either inordinate self-sufficiency, or a morbid state of conscience.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Wisdom may be rented ... on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever.
— Robertson Davies
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
— Ignatius Of Loyola
Attachment to spiritual things is ... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
— Beverly Sills
Mr. Nobley: I assure you, I am taking an inordinate amount of pleasure from this ball, but none of it has to do with any of these bumblers.
— Shannon Hale
There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.
— John Calvin
In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.
— Michael Dirda
The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect operatic version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.
— Shefali Tsabary
When a publisher spends an inordinate amount on an acquisition, it will do everything in its power to make that project a market success.
— Anita Elberse
An inordinate love of ritual can be harmful to the soul, unless, of course, in times of great crisis, when ritual can protect the soul from fracture.
— Jeff VanderMeer
What a foolish thing, the human heart, being both fragile and reckless. No wonder we spend such an inordinate amount of time in pain.
— Eliza Crewe