Inordinate Quotes
48 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SPIRITUAL EXERCISES whereby to conquer oneself, and order one's life, without being influenced in one's decision by any inordinate affection.
— Ignatius Loyola
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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
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God has an inordinate fondness for beetles.
— John B. S. Haldane
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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