Too Often Quotes

Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater

Time is a slippery concept, and we are often wrong about it ... All too often we find ourselves looking in the right places at the wrong times. — Frank Partnoy

Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow. — Chuck Close

You must not pay too much attention to opinions. The written word is unalterable, and opinions are often only an expression of despair. — Franz Kafka

Every so often I wonder what on earth we are waiting for. Silence. For it to be too late, Madame. — Alessandro Baricco

being on Deep Space 9 often felt like the surreal consequences of a night spent drinking far too much copal. — Olivia Woods

Relationships fail often because some of us are too afraid to go naked. Not literally, but with out these costumes we made. — Darnell Lamont Walker

It's a funny thing about suspicions, Mr. Wright. All too often, they're just vain hopes in disguise. — Tessa Dare

Long works are too often like long sermons which end in fatigue. — Francis Grierson

Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often. — Clark Ashton Smith

Too often people view idealists as naive. — Jacqueline Novogratz

If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do. — Richard Roundtree

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

That's why everyone focuses on the present and future. The past is too painful when you remember how lives end. Often abruptly. — Jodi Meadows

Beautiful girls who love too much, as Lindsay appeared to have done, often meet unpleasant ends. — Meg Cabot

We too often love things and use people when we should be using things and loving people. — Reuel Howe

When you know the answer you want, it is often all too easy to figure out a way of getting it. — Brian Greene

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. — Thomas Sowell

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her. — Charles Caleb Colton

We often realize too late that passion only lasts when it is married to truth. — Suzanne Hayes

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. — Marshall McLuhan

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. — Bernie Sanders

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism. — George W. Romney

Oh, I don't wonder babies always cry when they wake up in the night. So often I want to do it too. — L.M. Montgomery

Too often we develop a blindness for all of the wonderful things in life. — Robert A. Giacalone

All too often cowardice wears the habit of wounded pride.' Anomander — Steven Erikson

Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you have
to pay is often too high. — Eraldo Banovac

Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often, — Oscar Wilde

Pro tip: (Often learned too late) Don't argue with crazy. Just expect crazy... to be f*****g insane. — Nathan Edmondson

I cannot repeat too often that to control the child one must often control oneself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much. — Jorja Fox

Too often, it occurs to him that he's lived just long enough to have completely outlived the world that made sense to him, the world where he fit. He — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Have you noticed that far too often the best people in the world lack power, — Matthew Quick

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. — Jane Rule

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days. — Sheldon B. Kopp

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever. — Jeffrey R. Holland

I try to dumb down out there. They tell you to stay within yourself, so that's what I do. Mentally, I'm not gonna out-think myself too often. — John Kruk

Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance. — Mardy Grothe

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love. — Albert Camus

There's nothing like an orgasm to make a person think
and more often than not, to think too much. — Doug Cooper

Listening is crucial for any novelist. Stories & ideas abound. We too often talk about ourselves & block out the richness others may offer. — Mark Rubinstein

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged. — Pope Benedict XVI

Yo muddafuckers: Always follow the idea, never the person. #lifelessons Leaders done taken us to many bad places too fucking often. — Komrade Komura

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast. — Aaron Levie

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. — Elizabeth George Speare

The real secret of an unsatisfied life lies too often in an unsurrendered will. — Hudson Taylor

It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war. — Lester B. Pearson

Too often, I believe, liberals deny that poverty is linked to bad choices. — Nicholas Kristof

He had high hopes for society, and though his hopes were too often dashed, he remained a raging optimist. — Randy Pausch

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have. — Arthur Scargill

Our ego is our silent partner ... too often with a controlling interest. — Cullen Hightower

Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action. — Tameichi Hara

That life is far too short to waste on grudges. Love does not come along often. When it does, you can't throw it away because it isn't perfect. — Sophie Oak

I was thinking: Girls get scared way too often. Girls get stupidly scared. I was not scared.
Telling myself not to be scared kind of worked. — Tamara Faith Berger

Art is too often discounted as a secondary priority. The writer is necessary to society. — Kayla Rae Whitaker

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee. — John Ortberg

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different. — Bob Wise

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe

I think that's what most of us rappers do too often. We put too much information in some of our albums that could actually be on the next ones. — Schoolboy Q

I use circumlocution too often, and instead of getting my point across, I tend to babble. — Genevieve Padalecki

What we believe possesses us, and thus too often it overwhelms love - the truth of us. — Miguel Ruiz

Too often we women try to tackle chaos that is not ours to fix — Amy Poehler

Originality, I fear, is too often only undetected and frequently unconscious plagiarism. — William Ralph Inge

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Passion very often makes the wisest men fools, and very often too inspires the greatest fools with wit. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future. — Paul Bloom

Too often we elevate the inconsequential into the influential ... by reacting without reflecting. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion. — Brian D. McLaren

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. — Jack Kemp

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

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. — Decimius Magnus Ausonius

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. — Margot Asquith

All too often, we spend our days waiting for the ideal path to appear in front of us. We forget that paths are made by walking, not waiting. — Robin Sharma

Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life. — William Ellery Channing

a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power. — Cherie Priest

Too often we participate in the globalization of indifference. May we strive instead to live global solidarity. — Pope Francis

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth. — Lucretia Mott

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious. — Murray Mexted

I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my parents, I'll often cry. I become too emotional. — Ana Ivanovic

I like you too, despite my better judgment." "You'd be surprised how often I hear that. — Marissa Meyer

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions ... How many evils has religion caused? — Lucretius

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much. — Jean De La Bruyere

All too often, we feel that we are not living the fullness of our lives because we are not expressing the fullness of our gifts. — Elle Luna

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth. — Harry S. Truman

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much. — Don Marquis

All too often, it seems, we're willing to be students of Christianity rather than disciples of Christ. — K.P. Yohannan

A woman too often reasons from her heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes and her troubles. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Often it is fatal to live too long. — Jean Racine

All too often those who extol most loudly the virtues of selflessness turn out to be motivated by greed and ambition. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Too often, we see people who are prevented from practicing their religion because of a government mandate. — Carly Fiorina

Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain. — Gerry Souter

People often say very, very nice, complimentary things. But I think it's better if you don't take that too much to heart. — Robin Trower

We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too. — Mary Hart

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too... — Various

She laughed at bad jokes, stayed out too late, and overslept too often. Charity Hill loved holidays and she hated budgets and the alarm clock. — Elizabeth Jane Howard

History has shown us all too often the consequences of dreaming poorly or not at all. — Jeff VanderMeer

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded. — Susan Sontag