Inordinate Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise an… — Mark W. Clark
Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three… — Stephen Covey
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
Haldane was engaged in discussion with an eminent theologian. "What inference," asked the latter, "might one draw about the nature of God from a study… — John B. S. Haldane
I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
The prohibition is general. No clause in the Constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give to Congress a power to disarm… — William Rawle
The world says that time is money, but I say that money is time. In order to earn enough money to satisfy his desires, one… — Israel Meir Kagan
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that… — H. L. Mencken
SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection. — Ignatius Loyola
Why is one a slave to thought ? Why has thought become so important in all our lives -thought being ideas, being the response to… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
God has an inordinate fondness for beetles. — John B. S. Haldane
If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of creation it would appear that God has an inordinate fondness… — John B. S. Haldane
Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the… — B. C. Forbes
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there have never been thirteen millions of people associated in one political body who enjoyed… — Andrew Jackson
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught… — Timothy Keller
Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very… — Adam Gopnik
Wherever there is any element of pride or of conceit, Jesus cannot expound a thing. He will take us through the disappointment of a wounded… — Oswald Chambers
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people… — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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