Excess Quotes · Page 31

It's my personal opinion, and I'm not espousing it to anybody else, I think your immune system and how healthy you are…

— George Hamilton

We've led pretty wholesome lives. We haven't lived life to excess like so many groups have done.

— Judith Durham

Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I…

— Robert Redford

I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go…

— Debra Dean

An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as…

— David Wright

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

— Mark Twain

Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

— Mason Cooley

When you do hard routes, you have to try hard. They're not easy routes. You have to give everything you have. You…

— Chris Sharma

Having expressed the rage against the laws and conditions that oppressed them - maybe even excess anger in the beginning was directed…

— Betty Friedan

The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by…

— Arthur Seyss-Inquart

I'm not lazy. I'm simply judicious about excess movement.

— Jen Lancaster

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

— Will Durant

I advise other companies' CEOs, don't fall into the trap where you go, 'Where's the growth? Where's the growth?' Where's the growth?'…

— Jamie Dimon

Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with…

— Horace

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and…

— Walt Whitman

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who…

— Marvin J. Ashton

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

— Hillary Clinton

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

— Jeremy Collier

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its…

— Aldous Huxley

My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.

— L'Wren Scott

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

— Honore de Balzac

Ah, Miss Harriet, it would do us no harm to remember oftener than we do, that vices are sometimes only virtues carried…

— Charles Dickens

The Declaration [of Independence] was not a protest against government, but against the excess of government. It prescribed the proper role of…

— Gerald R. Ford

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and…

— Abraham Lincoln