Excess Quotes · Page 13

The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living.

— Curt Sachs

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

— Bill Watterson

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

— Anonymous

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

— Jerome Powell

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

— Norman Lear

Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

— Jean de la Bruyere

I drink to excess, I gamble to excess, but everyone knows it, so it's not a big deal.

— Oscar Goodman

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

— Ralph Blum

A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim… That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If only happiness when in excess, bubbles over, and can contaminate others; with only a few happy ones; in just a few…

— Anonymous

Anyone who believes a growth rate in excess of 15% per annum over the long term is attainable should pursue a career…

— Warren Buffett

I'm a fan of Oliver Stone. I like his movies, I like his excess, and I think he has a great capacity…

— Greil Marcus

Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,…

— Angela Carter

We have too many politicians who are poll-driven to excess. Polls are important. You've got to know what the public is thinking,…

— Rudy Giuliani

In an excess of examples, the walk to globalization has additionally implied the minimization of women and young ladies. What's more that…

— Hillary Clinton

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only…

— Kay Ryan

Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I…

— George Washington

Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance.…

— Amish Tripathi

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is…

— Nikola Tesla

Only a very small proportion of us take those excesses with us into later life. In the age before everyone had a…

— Derek Ridgers

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur…

— Rob Sheffield

We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration…

— Jack Gilbert

That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the…

— George Berkeley

With regard to Banks, they have taken too deep and too wide a root in social transactions, to be got rid of…

— James Madison

We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

— Henry David Thoreau

Mars Volta was always about embracing what 'too much' was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

— Anonymous

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

— Charles Dickens

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to…

— Robert Morgan

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

— Albert Camus

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

— Grace Jones

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

— Plato

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love…

— Arthur Lynch

Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.

— Joseph Joubert

“The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in…

— Dee Dee M. Scott

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.”

— Courtney Love