„There are certain crimes that are simply too cruel, too sadistic, too hideous to be forgiven.“

„One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.“

—  Henry James, livro The Portrait of a Lady

Fonte: The Portrait of a Lady

„Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky was, too, thought Annemarie. The whole world was: too cold, too big. And too cruel.“

—  Lois Lowry, livro Number the Stars

Fonte: Number the Stars

„What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.“

—  Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

„As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.“

—  Oscar Wilde, livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.“

—  Douglas Coupland, livro Eleanor Rigby

Fonte: Eleanor Rigby

„Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk's too big, the desk's too small, there's too much noise, there's too much quiet, it's too hot, it's too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all and simply to start.“

—  Robert Harris, livro The Ghost

Fonte: The Ghost (2007), Ch. 9.

„The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.“

—  Charles A. Reich, livro The Greening of America

Fonte: The Greening of America (1970), Chapter IV : Consciousness II, p. 78

„I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low.“

—  Og Mandino, livro O Maior Vendedor do Mundo

Fonte: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 15 : The Scroll Marked VIII, p. 91.
Contexto: I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

„Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.“

—  Ovid, livro Epistulae ex Ponto

II, ix, 47
Epistulae ex Ponto (Letters From the Black Sea)
Original: (la) Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes
emollit mores nec sinit esse feros.

„It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.“

—  W. Somerset Maugham, livro Of Human Bondage

Fonte: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 51

„Too cruel, lady, is the pain,
You bid me thus revive again.“

—  John Conington British classical scholar 1825 - 1869

Fonte: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book II, p. 39

„My fees are not too high. Your wage scale may simply be too low.“

—  Jack Vance, livro Showboat World

Fonte: Showboat World (1975), Chapter 12 (p. 132)

„There was no way possible [the queen] could have done all of the things the pamphleteers claimed. The crimes were too gross, too immoral and far too physically challenging. Magnus himself had never attempted half of them.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Runaway Queen

Fonte: The Runaway Queen

„Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well?
To bear too tender, or too firm a heart,
To act a lover's or a Roman's part?
Is there no bright reversion in the sky,
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?“

—  Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744

Fonte: Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 6.

„I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.“

—  Michael Crichton, livro State of Fear

State of Fear (2004)

„There are too many kids out there suffering from bullying, rejection, or simply being mistreated because of who they are. Too many dropouts. Too much abuse. Too many homeless. Too many suicides. You can change that and you are changing it.“

—  Ellen Page Canadian actress 1987

Coming Out Speech (2014)
Contexto: There are too many kids out there suffering from bullying, rejection, or simply being mistreated because of who they are. Too many dropouts. Too much abuse. Too many homeless. Too many suicides. You can change that and you are changing it. But you never needed me to tell you that. That’s why this was a little bit weird. The only thing I can really say is what I’ve been building up to for the past five minutes. Thank you. Thank for inspiring me. Thank you for giving me hope, and please keep changing the world for people like me. Happy Valentine’s Day. I love you.

„There's good in all of us and I think I simply love people too much, so much that it makes me feel too sad.“

—  Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994

„Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.“

—  Dan Brown, livro Angels & Demons

Fonte: Angels & Demons

„There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.“

—  Richard Hamming American mathematician and information theorist 1915 - 1998

Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
Contexto: We intend to teach the doing of mathematics. The applications of these methods produce the results of mathematics (which usually is only what is taught)... There is also a deliberate policy to force you to think abstractly... it is only through abstraction that any reasonable amount of useful mathematics can be covered. There is simply too much known to continue the older approach of giving detailed results.