#too

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

I was going to be a concert pianist, and when I was in high school, my parents were scared to death that I would focus too much on that too soon. And that I'd end up in some sort of dead end, and not fulfilling whatever potential they thought I had. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#concert pianist #dead #dead end #death #end

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#around #dad #game #golf #him

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#dog #even #first #get #had

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. ↗

— Albert Pike

#does #far #fire #freeze #his

Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#any #degree #language #particular #precision

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer. ↗

— Leon Uris

#heavy #honest #i #jockey #producer

Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#depressive #fry #know #like #lot

I just get bored easily. As I'm sure other people do too. ↗

— Pink

#easily #get #i #just #other

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#bad #certainly #created #cricket #earth