We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs inordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.
Quotes about inordinate (16 Quotes)
Hundreds of community citizens will be building the facility for the city without using an inordinate amount of tax dollars. Both the tax payers and students win.
Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else.
It's not physical, where you go up there and put a shoulder in somebody and take him out. It's about the ability to bear down and pull out quality golf shots on your own, and put an inordinate amount of pressure on you're opponent. That's the only thing you can do in our sport.
Seniors are scared to death with the inordinate amount of information, and they are intimidated by the penalty if they don't make a choice by May 15.
I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
When you have an inordinate amount of rain, you don't have any choice - the water can only flow off so far. You don't have the capacity. The sewers, once they get overflowed and overwhelmed, there is nothing you can do about it except try to keep it open to the best of your ability.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
And the heaven, He raised it high, and He made the balance That you may not be inordinate in respect of the measure.
There's an inordinate amount of resources being directed at an industry that's pretty small. I'm afraid there's an investigation under way in search of a crime.
Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.
It's a time-consuming process. It would not be unusual to find most people do not want to do that indefinitely. It's also a process where the rewards are largely internal school board members get an inordinate share of the blame when things don't go well and very little of the credit when things do go well.
The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.
She's a very cerebral swimmer. She spends an inordinate amount of time studying her competition. When she gets into the pool with swimmers she hasn't competed against before, that knowledge gives her an edge.
The prohibition is general. No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
It seems to me that we spend an inordinate amount of time and attention on fixing ourselves when we could really be directing that out to serving others,