All Quotes

Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

Too often, I hear stories of teachers and parents spending part of their paychecks to ensure there are supplies in the classroom - even basic necessities like pens, pencils and paper. This is unacceptable.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
‐‐ Karen McCarthy

Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
‐‐ Barbara Delinsky

Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
‐‐ Louis L'Amour

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
‐‐ Tom Brady

Too often in our communities many families have not even been aware that certain charities exist; and at the same time, there are many who are willing to volunteer their energy and their resources to help these charities, yet they do not know these charities even exist.
‐‐ Dana Rohrabacher

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks.
‐‐ Ron Silver

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.
‐‐ Ken Salazar

Too often in Washington we tend to see foreign policy as an abstraction, with little understanding of what we are committing our country to: the complications and consequences of endeavors.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel

Too often, Indian tribes are at the mercy of the shifting political winds of State government.
‐‐ Jim Costa

Too often, investors are the target of fraudulent schemes disguised as investment opportunities. As you know, if the balance is tipped to the point where investors are not confident that there are appropriate protections, investors will lose confidence in our markets, and capital formation will ultimately be made more difficult and expensive.
‐‐ Mary Schapiro

Too often, it seems, conservatives have scorned experts as incompetent, biased, or otherwise worth ignoring because they came up with answers that didn't fit their politically desired answer. Often, they proclaim experts have a liberal bias. Of course, plenty of Democrats have voted for conservative ideas, but that is beside the point.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.
‐‐ Anna Maria Chavez

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
‐‐ Francesca Annis

Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Too often, parents whose children express an interest in farming squelch it because they envision dirt, dust, poverty, and hermit living. But great stories come out of great farming.
‐‐ Joel Salatin

Too often, people get elected to a body, to any office, and the first thing they do is talk about how this year, it's going to be different.
‐‐ Bob Wise

Too often, people get jobs based on who they know - not what they know.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
‐‐ Chogyam Trungpa

Too often people view idealists as naive.
‐‐ Jacqueline Novogratz

Too often, sales reps simply regurgitate their presentations and expect to land the sale. It doesn't work.
‐‐ Harvey Mackay

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.
‐‐ Tim Wise

Too often, teachers assume that they are introducing a book or concept to students for the first time. In fact, many units are repeated over the course of a student's K-12 experience.
‐‐ Heidi Hayes Jacobs

Too often, the air conditioners we use to cool down also contribute to climate change - the very force that's fueling extreme heat.
‐‐ Frances Beinecke

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly.
‐‐ Jim Hunt

Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
‐‐ Jenny Shipley

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
‐‐ Eleanor Roosevelt

Too often, the idea seemed to be that the cost of being part of Europe was being less like Britain. So after years of fighting to defend Europe against attacks from the Eurosceptic right, it would be fatal to retreat into the same arguments and begin the battle anew.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.
‐‐ Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
‐‐ Rita Coolidge

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
‐‐ Mark Batterson

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.
‐‐ Steve Chabot

Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
‐‐ Elizabeth Drew

Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.
‐‐ Colin Powell

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
‐‐ Stella Young

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup

Too often, we get attention and sympathy by being a victim. If we're invested in someone being our villain, we must love being the victim. We have to let go of both characters in the story.
‐‐ Regina Brett

Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
‐‐ Tadashi Yanai

Too often we just look at these glistening successes. Behind them in many, many cases is failure along the way, and that doesn't get put into the Wikipedia story or the bio. Yet those failures teach you every bit as much as the successes.
‐‐ Michael Mullen

Too often we learn everything about how an African dies, but nothing about how he lives. But they learn and live and love and dream just like we do. That's not to say there are not a hell of a lot of problems in Africa. But there is also another side to that story.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture. Do you have high-interest rate debt? Paying it off faster will save you a bundle.
‐‐ Jean Chatzky

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.
‐‐ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

Too often we see that teachers and educational administrators feel threatened by self-organized learning. They, therefore, think it is not learning at all.
‐‐ Sugata Mitra

Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
‐‐ Larry Hogan