Excess Quotes · Page 11

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

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

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

— John Gray

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

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Oscar de la Renta

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

What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string…

— Helen Keller

Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's a new phenomenon in America that states can now sue the national government and become a kind of check and balance…

— Alan Dershowitz

Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we…

— Rahm Emanuel

We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all…

— Ronen Sen

In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other…

— Anonymous

The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of…

— J. William Fulbright

Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord…

— Sam Storms

We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves…

— Tertullian

“Most Americans are aware of the brutality and injustice used to maintain the excesses of their selfish consumer society and empire. Yet…

— Curtis White

Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose…

— William Shakespeare

The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits…

— Aaron Siskind

When excesses such as lax lending standards become widespread and persist for some time, people are lulled into a false sense of…

— Seth Klarman

Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal…

— Dorotheus of Gaza

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

— David Korten

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

— James Chanos

The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness.

— William Shakespeare

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

— Thomas Paine

“The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.”

— Shaun Hick

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

— Lemmy

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

— Euripides

Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

— Bernard Tschumi

Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided.

— Benjamin Franklin

“To the starved eyes of one such as I, there seemed to be an excess of muchness”

— Anonymous

The growing possibility of our destroying ourselves and the world with our own neglect and excess is tragic and very real.

— Billy Graham

Virtue is the golden mean between two vices, the one of excess and the other of deficiency.

— Aristotle

It is supposable that, in the eyes of angels, a struggle down a dark lane and a battle of Leipsic differ in…

— Robert Aris Willmott

In excess, most endeavors and possessions take on the characteristics of their opposite.

— Tim Ferriss

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”

— Compton Mackenzie