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If they've been put there to fight, there are far too few. If they've been put there to be killed, there are far too many.


Ernest F. Hollings

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CRAIG GROESCHEL There are too many literati, yet very few are smart; knowledge is acquired far too easily.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There have been so many discrepancies so far that it's hard to know what to believe. There are too m...
MARY TILLMAN There are far too many people out there who take themselves too seriously.
BLINK 182 There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS The proposals being put out are far too ambiguous from our point of view. They looked as though ther...
GORDON TAYLOR You can find sorrow in the arithmetic, and you can find a bittersweet hope.
DAVID LEVITHAN Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.”
MICHEL FABER One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON There are too many opportunities in New York. We can't live too far away.
BRUCE ZHANG You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER Leaving behind books is even more beautiful - there are far too many children.
MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY This time they've gone too far. If this had concerned Islam there would have been a really strong re...
ANTONIO SCIORTINO We have been reluctant to put too many Nabi dollars into it. We have been fortunate that there has b...
HENRIK RASMUSSEN There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
ELVIS PRESLEY There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.
MARTIN LUTHER I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing...
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON There are too many people, and too few human beings.
ROBERT ZEND We've always said there aren't too many steelworkers, there are too many steel companies. That's bee...
MARCO TRBOVICH I do believe in Providence. There have been far too many tiny perfect coincidences in my life. At so...
CASPAR VEGA There are too many retailers. There are too many brands. There are too many designers. There are too...
MICKEY DREXLER All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... Don't use it because it is available for you. It is available for you just in case you need it.
EPHDAN A tough lesson we must learn in life is that....NOT everyone is going to wish you well, not everyone...
JESSICA FAYE HAMMER To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti...
MONIKA BASILE I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.
ALFUSAINEY JALLOW Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER No matter where you go - there you are
CONFUCIUS There are too many politicians in the world and too few statesmen.
ADI GODREJ Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is...
LYN YUTANG The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide-open spaces surrounded by teeth.
CHARLES LUCKMAN It's too early to make a call. There are still too many votes out there that have not been tabulated...
GUILLERMO LUZ We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are lim...
SYLVIA EARLE That's a shame," said Bert, "to run out of crackers before you've run out of emergency.
JAMES A. OWEN The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two f...
MAUREEN MURPHY Strikes are the only way to protect worker's rights. If anything there are too many taxes in Italy, ...
GABRIA CARLINI There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre...
DAN LEVITAN Many investors are fearful that oracle will acquire this that and the other thing. But my contention...
BERT HOCHFELD People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.
BOB CORKER When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were fe...
MARTIN JACQUES When it comes to being there for others or for yourself, you should always pick for others...if you'...
ANDRE FRATTINO What you guys want, I'm for.
DAN QUAYLE If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows p...
DEYTH BANGER I hate being in my shoes
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I am a deadman there!
DEYTH BANGER I think there've been too many people dying and we should put a stop to it. We're just over there do...
GEORGE PEREZ There are too many agencies to report to, too many returns that have to be filed.
BRUCE GOLDING It's too soon to put a dollar amount (DEP penalty) on it, if there is one.
ELAINE MAKATURA There are other kitchens running locally, but you know there are lots of folks who may not get the r...
ALAN COLE You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tit...
DEYTH BANGER There is far too much of divorce, wherein hearts are broken, and sometimes lives are destroyed.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY He must accept responsibility for his hand in what our citizens clearly consider to be government co...
BROCK WINSLOW You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion ye...
NICK LAKE This got me thinking - if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside ...
RENE DENFELD There are many nice, peaceful Muslims, but the Netherlands is far too tolerant regarding the stateme...
ELS BORST If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third; / One near one...
ROBERT BROWNING Far too often animals are put to sleep when they could be saved through proper care and nursing.
LOUIS LEAKEY There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because th...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH There haven't been very many changes, ... There was an addition put on in the 1930s.
JANE HUFF They grant far too many variances; they grant six to eight variances on any given project. Variances...
LARRY PRICE He put pictures that shouldn't have been on there, but people should be allowed to put any pictures ...
JOSH JONES You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I...
DEYTH BANGER So far, in the two months I've been down there, the response has been overwhelming. Things couldn't ...
DEAN BARKLEY There are too many rotten things in this world, and if I can put a smile on one little girl's face, ...
TIFFANI AMBER THIESSEN To put it bluntly, there are too many humans on this planet. Six-billion-plus primates. And we think...
CHARLES STROSS "Wings of a Dear Angel might be hanging, in the bedroom closet, of one of your closest friends, who ...
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Leave something for "Allah" but never leave "Allah" for something, because in life, something will l...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Sin is a funny thing. We can't conquer it, we can't see it. But is is still there, and we carry it o...
JOSHUA CLARKE Inside the mind of a real philosopher, every single word has a value. Even why he thought of the wor...
EPHDAN There is simply nothing of comparable value to life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or ...
DEYTH BANGER I came "here" to get "there." Do I have any fucking clue what "there" is? Hell the fuck no. I'm just...
ROBERT KIRKMAN There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.
JANET ERSKINE STUART There is far too much law for those who can afford it and far too little for those who cannot.
DEREK BOK Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them...
RENE DENFELD Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
SHANE CLAIBORNE There are too many fault lines to count now.
NICHOLAS SPARKS We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I'm not going to go to far, if I do, maybe go over to Canada. I haven't been there yet.
MARCUS BELL Nobody wants to see anyone who has been there all their lives disintegrate. Dick has been always the...
LEE GRANT Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far ...
JOHN TURNER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER No one is too old for fairy tales.
NICK LAKE They are too far away now to give it a proper fight.
PETTER SOLBERG There are simply too many players involved for a (conspiracy) to be plausible.
CHARLES MASON If you put too much aid too quickly into weak institutions, where there isn't capacity, you have cor...
ANDREW NATSIOS I still haven't come to grips with the fact that he would be unavailable ? because he's always been ...
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ERNEST BEVIN The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine lik...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expect...
ERNEST RUTHERFORD All things truly wicked start from an innocence.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a misguided nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.
ERNEST BEVIN When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Re...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Or don't you like to write letters. I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned ab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best --make it all up --but make it up so trul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards hav...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as imm...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It was a pleasant caf
ERNEST HEMINGWAY For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watchin...
ERNEST BECKER Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
ERNEST HOLMES One learns to itch where one can scratch.
ERNEST BRAMAH