Inordinate Quotes

48 quotes by 46 authors

I think [the death penalty is] very expensive, and the delays are inordinate, delaying closure for the victims' families. — Rob McKenna
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out… — Eve Ensler
I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really… — Margot Kidder
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the… — Heinrich Heine
As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January… — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic. — Dick Cavett
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
A strongly accentuated zoophilism, such as an inordinate love of horses or dogs, throws the emotional nature out of balance; and those who are possessed… — William E. Woodward
I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career. — Marsha Norman
The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are… — Luther Burbank
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who… — Jimmy Carter
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. — Charles Horton Cooley
I will say that there is an inordinate amount of medicine in my novels, especially the first one. There are a lot of medical things… — Khaled Hosseini
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. — Beverly Sills
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson
But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention. — Pat Conroy
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Nothing disciplines the inordinate desires of the flesh like service, and nothing transforms the desires of the flesh like serving in hiddenness. The flesh whines… — Richard J. Foster
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams

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