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My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness. -- Lord Mountbatten
I've so exceeded what I ever wanted to do. -- Graham Norton
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. -- Albert Einstein
Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power. -- Clint Eastwood
I've exceeded a few of my goals, but I'm behind on a couple of others. -- Tiger Woods
For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless. -- Dominick Dunne
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. -- Kate Millett
Compare not thyself with those that have less than thyself, but look on those that have far exceeded thee. -- William Gurnall
As the Nasdaq soared in 1999 and early 2000, demand for many offerings far exceeded the supply of shares available at the initial offering price. -- Alex Berenson
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so. -- Pete du Pont
The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success. -- Richard Flanagan
There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent. -- Douglas Hofstadter
The progress of the natural sciences in modern times has of course so much exceeded all expectations that any suggestion that there may be some limits to it is bound to arouse suspicion. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Twitch launched in June of 2011, and our growth ever since has exceeded even my expectations, which were not small. A year and a half later, the community of broadcasters and viewers has multiplied hundreds of percent. -- Emmett Shear
The Internet has exceeded our collective expectations as a revolutionary spring of information, news, and ideas. It is essential that we keep that spring flowing. We must not thwart the Internet's availability by taxing access to it. -- Chris Cannon
I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so much like it was in my head. But it also exceeded all my expectations. -- Nate Ruess
I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like. -- Pat Bowlen
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination. -- Julian Assange
I've already exceeded my expectations for myself. I'm one of the most influential people! I mean come on! I wanted to be... I never thought the things I've experienced in my life, I didn't think that was the life that I was gonna get to live. -- Ashton Kutcher
Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good. -- Oona Chaplin
In Sub-Saharan Africa, where agriculture represents two-thirds of all employment, governments are proving that resource commitments yield success. In 2004, African heads of state pledged 10 percent of their national budgets to achieve 6 percent annual growth in agriculture. By 2008, 20 African countries had met or exceeded that 6 percent target. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
At MIT, I had the good fortune for seven years to teach network theory, which is basic to many disciplines, to one-third of the undergraduate student body. It was an experiment to see how high we could bring their level of understanding, and it exceeded all of my expectations. -- Amar Bose
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. -- Martin Filler
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission. -- Eric Ries
I've always considered myself a Libertarian. While I was running for governor of New Mexico, the Republicans were totally inclusive of me; the party was open-armed, but they never thought I'd win. I delivered in a really big way; I exceeded their expectations and think I'm still highly regarded by the GOP in New Mexico. -- Gary Johnson
My dad has always been very proud of me but I think I have exceeded his expectations. When I told him I wanted to be an actor and moved to New York City, I think he assumed I would be playing the guitar on the subway and collecting spare change in my guitar case. The fact that I'm not doing that means that I'm a huge success. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Expectations are made to be exceeded! -- Lorii Myers
The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it. -- Donald Trump
My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies -- C. Wright Mills
Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position. -- Seneca the Younger
The stupidity of the American voter is exceeded only by its slovenliness. -- Jonathan Gruber
All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent. -- George Jung
I have already exceeded the amount of work my head can bear. -- Theodore Guerin
Artists don't get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working. -- Stephen De Staebler
The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done. -- Erich Segal
No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power. -- C. S. Lewis
The idiot had shot their own dog. That's what happened when the destructive potential of a man's weapons exceeded his intelligence. -- Ilona Andrews
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat. -- William Hartston
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams. -- David Oakes
The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season. -- Rachael Taylor
Men of faith know that throughout history the crimes committed in liberty's name have been exceeded only by those committed in God's name -- Mills E. Godwin
The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol. -- Al Gore
What [President Donald Trump] is doing is taking away the executive overreach that President [Barack] Obama did which we thought exceeded his powers. -- Paul Ryan
I'm totally cool. I'm totally calm, and I'm totally cool. My calm is exceeded only by my cool. Which is total. Here we go. -- Joss Whedon
We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets. -- Brad D. Smith
Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way. -- Ray Dalio
In 1970, Los Angeles became the first place where the total acreage used for roads and parking exceeded the amount of space given over to habitation. -- Victor Papanek
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate. -- Camille Paglia
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthurs] twenty-two medals-thirteen of them for heroism-probably exceeded those of any other figure in American history. He seemed to seek death on battlefields. -- William Manchester
Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy. -- Gerald Kaufman
It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded. -- Michel de Montaigne
The fun thing with the newer characters in the movie was that anything goes. The life they brought to it just exceeded my expectations. It was just above and beyond. -- Coley Sohn
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are repaid with hatred instead of gratitude. -- Tacitus
I would be disappointed if I were remembered as a runner because I feelthat my contribution to the youth of America has far exceeded the woman who was the Olympic champion. -- Wilma Rudolph
Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. -- Joseph Butler
A little black girl yearns for the blue eyes of a little white girl, and the horror at the heart of her yearning is exceeded only by the evil of fulfillment -- Toni Morrison
Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. -- Johnny Depp

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