Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
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Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
Sure I loved him - too much. And he loved me, only not enough. I just want someone who thinks I'm number one in his life. I'm not willing to accept emotional scraps anymore.
We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.
NEVER GIVE UP No matter what is going on Never give up Develop the heart Too much energy in your country Is spent developing the mind Instead of the heart Be compassionate Not just to your friends But to everyone Be compassionate Work for peace In your heart and in the world Work for peace And I say again Never give up No matter what is going on around you Never give up
The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
History. The more of it you have the more you have to live it. After a little while there gets to be too much of it to memorize and maybe that's when empires start to decline.
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a castaway’s worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one’s life away.
In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
Sometimes we let our thoughts of tomorrow take up too much of today. Daydreaming of the past and longing for the future may provide comfort but will not take the place of living in the present. This is the day of our opportunity, and we must grasp it
In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.
He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak.
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees.
Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.
She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.
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