Excess Quotes · Page 15

Excess into muscle. Jesus pill binge. Water into wine. Devil in a syringe.

— Angelspit

Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray.

— Alfred Jodl

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess…

— Peter Kreeft

The problem with certain Englishmen is drinking to excess, the systematic search for drunkenness.

— Marcel Desailly

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

— Jeremy Collier

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

— Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

There's a rule they don't teach you at the Harvard Business School. It is, if anything is worth doing, it's worth doing…

— Edwin Land

There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly,…

— Victor Hugo

The older you get, the easier it is to get injured. But what I've learned the hard way is that the more…

— Steve Howey

Let's talk about the other story: the women raped and killed. I don't believe it. Certainly there was no lack of excesses,…

— Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior…

— Confucius

Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia - reduced…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you…

— Barack Obama

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess…

— Francis Collins

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.…

— William E. Gladstone

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited),…

— Aristotle

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all…

— Octavio Paz

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa,…

— Juan Enriquez

Remember what Teddy Roosevelt did. Yes, he took on what he saw as the excesses in the economy, but he also stood…

— Hillary Clinton

There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political…

— Paul Wellstone

In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we're seeing now are more akin…

— Harrison Ford

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Witticisms please as long as we keep them within boundaries, but pushed to excess they cause offense.

— Phaedrus

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

— Mark Twain

Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we…

— David Platt

As some say, Solon was the author of the apophthegm, "Nothing in excess.

— Diogenes Laertius

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

— Anonymous

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

— Will Durant

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Excess is not really something I consider a bad thing; especially when you are talking about living.

— Oscar de la Renta

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.”

— John Gray

Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.

— Chico Xavier

I keep coming with reason why you can't have all of me excuses,excuses the truth is you make it hard for me.

— Michael Myers Jr

Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.

— James Chanos

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

— David Korten

America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the…

— Kalle Lasn