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People often say that aesthetics is a branch of psychology. The idea is that once we are more advanced-all the mysteries of art-will be understood by psychological experiments. Exceedingly stupid at this idea is, this is roughly it. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly. -- Frederic Chopin
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. -- Pierre de Fermat
Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate. -- Herodotus
But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful. -- Alan Watts
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away. -- Anaxagoras
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person. -- Ursula Burns
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great. -- George Muller
It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out. -- Samuel Butler
Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel. -- Frank Tipler
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Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. -- Jim Gaffigan
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. -- Albert Bandura
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. -- William Gibson
My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front! -- Sarojini Naidu
But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult! -- Kate Chopin
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate. -- Christie Hefner
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. -- Mary Antin
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. -- William Bligh
All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. -- Charles A. Beard
The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center. -- Orville Wright
May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season. -- George Muller
You become very angry and depressed that you keep getting offered only these exceedingly demure and repressed roles. They're so not me. That's why films like Fight Club were so important to me because I think I confounded certain stereotypes and limited perceptions of what I could do as an actress. -- Helena Bonham Carter
The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there. -- Edgar Mitchell
I should just put it bluntly, because we're all sort of friends here now - it's exceedingly likely that my greatest success is behind me. Oh, so Jesus, what a thought! You know that's the kind of thought that could lead a person to start drinking gin at nine o'clock in the morning, and I don't want to go there. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I like coffee exceedingly... -- H. P. Lovecraft
Life is exceedingly great. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
My soul is exceedingly joyful. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Filling life exceedingly is called ominous. -- Laozi
My soul is filled with exceedingly joy. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important -- Fred Rogers
I am exceedingly angry for no good reason. -- Keri Hulme
I think health is another exceedingly important thing. -- Joan Collins
Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good. -- Theodore Bikel
Masculine pride is an exceedingly precious and fragile thing -- Loretta Chase
The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine. -- Sun Tzu
Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy. -- Naomi Uemura
To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible. -- Plato
Soften my hard self-opinionatedness, which time has hardened so exceedingly! -- Gertrude the Great
The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. -- Charles A. Beard
When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. Matthew 2:10 -- Matthew 2 10
Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us. -- John Taylor Gatto
On the other hand, I would've been exceedingly rich, which would've been wonderful! -- Eric Stoltz
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone. -- Theodore Bikel
To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable. -- David Wilkerson
These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character. -- Lewis Tappan
[...] the beginning of things, of a world especially is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. -- Kate Chopin
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. -- Bertrand Russell
Bless your heart, they don't mind--they're exceedingly kind-- They don't blame you--as long as you're funny! -- W.S. Gilbert
Troubles are exceedingly gregarious in their nature, and flying in flocks are apt to perch capriciously. -- Charles Dickens
Alas! It is well written, The road to eminence lies through the cheap and exceedingly uninviting eating-houses. -- Ernest Bramah
The clerical system of church management is exceedingly popular, but the whole thought is foreign to Scripture. -- Watchman Nee
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. -- William Bligh
When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth. -- Kate Smith
Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence -- Mark Epstein
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. -- Paul Davies
...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly... -- Sappho
What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.' -- Max Lucado
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse. -- John Wesley Powell
The male elites that run most countries are exceedingly uncomfortable with the subject of AIDS because it's a sexually transmitted disease. -- Richard Holbrooke
I am exceedingly distressed at the proceedings of the Convention-being ... almost sure, they will ... lay the foundation of a Civil War. -- Elbridge Gerry
I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases -- Mark Twain
I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people. -- George Washington
Panty Melter: an exceedingly rare species of man blessed with so many desirable attributes he effortlessly gains access into a girl's panties." -- Tracy Brogan
Home is the place where, when you go there, they have to take you in. In other words: Home has exceedingly low standards. -- Heidi Julavits
The frightful engines of ecclesiastical councils, of diabolical malice, and Calvinistical good-nature never failed to terrify me exceedingly whenever I thought of preaching. -- John Adams
Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial. -- Gautama Buddha
As Christians continue to be vilified let us continue to rejoice and be exceedingly glad. It means we are salt, light and with Him. -- R. C. Sproul, Jr.
If one avoids haughtiness to the utmost extent and is exceedingly humble, he is termed a saint, and this is the standard of saintliness. -- Maimonides
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing. -- Mikhail Lermontov
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He had just compunction enough for having done nothing for his sisters himself, to be exceedingly anxious that everybody else should do a great deal. -- Jane Austen
Goals and caps on carbon emissions are practically worthless, if coal emissions continue, because of the exceedingly long lifetime of carbon dioxide in the air. -- James Hansen
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation. -- Ramana Maharshi
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.) -- Fernando Pessoa
Show me a person who has nothing to hide, and I'll show you a person who is either exceedingly dull - or a complete exhibitionist -- Phil Zimmermann
It happen'd one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz'd with the Print of a Man's naked Foot on the Shore. -- Daniel Defoe
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. -- William Winwood Reade
An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers? -- Criss Jami
At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body. -- Frank Griswold
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements -- Albert Bandura
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation. -- Sharon Salzberg
This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice. -- Matthew Dowd
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble. -- Terry Pratchett
Despite what our modern society would have you believe, the Witch within you is not dangerous, but protective. She is not frivolous, but exceedingly accurate and trustworthy. -- Laurie Cabot
General Taylor is, I have no doubt, a well-meaning old man. He is, however, uneducated, exceedingly ignorant of public affairs, and I should judge, of very ordinary capacity. -- James K. Polk
Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything. -- Maurice de Saxe
Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard? -- Allen Klein
I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? -- John Muir
The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label. -- Mark Twain
I believe in excellence. It is a basic need of every human soul. All of us can be excellent, because, fortunately, we are exceedingly diverse in our ambitions and talents. -- Edward Teller
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources. -- Matthew Simpson
It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. -- Johannes Peter Muller
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . . -- Plato
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a thing by leading an exceedingly regular and disciplined life. -- Wallace Stevens
There are different kinds of actors, and movie actors tend to be exceedingly precise and mechanical in a way that's really admirable for me to watch. You always learn from them. -- Ana Gasteyer
Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are so, how abundantly God blesses them and how the church prospers! -- Charles Spurgeon
Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach. -- Pindar
My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer. -- Ingmar Bergman
THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose. -- Morihei Ueshiba
This forms the nub of a dilemna that every Everest climber eventually comes up against: in order to succeed you must be exceedingly driven, but if you're too driven you're likely to die. -- Jon Krakauer
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It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and work of the flesh must go to the cross. -- Watchman Nee
Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion. -- Eliza Acton

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