Unduly Quotes

49 quotes by 38 authors

These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly… — Jacques Delors
When we are unduly impatient with an omniscient God's timing, we really are suggesting that we know what's best. Strange isn't it-we who wear wrist… — Neal A. Maxwell
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everyone defends his treasure, and will do so automatically.The real questions are, what do you treasure, and how much do you treasure it? Once you… — Helen Schucman
Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. Many people find smoking objectionable. I myself find many -… — Fran Lebowitz
This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should… — Murray Rothbard
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may… — Joseph Conrad
CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain. — Ambrose Bierce
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be. — John Maynard Keynes
At the root of the shy temperament is a deep fear of social judgment, one so severe it can sometimes be crippling. Introverted people don't… — Jeffrey Kluger
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather… — John Stuart Mill
Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is… — Neal A. Maxwell
a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men… — Bertrand Russell
As in all infant sciences, the universal habit of the human mind - to take a partial or local truth, generalise it unduly and try… — Sri Aurobindo
Sorry,â€ she said, â€œI got out as fast as I could, but I had to stay and socialize. Protocol, you know.â€ â€œExplain protocol,â€ Nell said.… — Neal Stephenson
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… — Thomas Mann
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding… — M. Scott Peck
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man; his… — Thomas Mann
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the… — Alan Watts

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