Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large.… — Jean Baudrillard
Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to… — Pope Francis
The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone. — Michelangelo
We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate.… — Marvin J. Ashton
Eating healthy nutritious food is the simple and right solution to get rid of excess body weight effortlessly and become slim and healthy forever. — Subodh Gupta
There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to… — Anthony Bourdain
With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear… — Ann Coulter
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names.… — Edmund Burke
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that… — James Payn
Write on your doors the saying wise and old. "Be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nothing Succeeds like excess! — Anna Dello Russo
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results… — J. William Fulbright
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states. — Demosthenes
The primitive thinking of the supernaturally inclined amounts to what his psychiatric colleagues call a problem, or an idea, of reference. An excess of the… — Ian Mcewan
Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords… — Elizabeth Bowen
Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself. — Woodrow Wilson
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice is as individual and marked… — David Wright
It is true that zeal is the soul of the virtues, but most certainly, Monsieur, it must be according to knowledge, as Saint Paul says;… — Vincent de Paul
"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means… — Neal Stephenson
We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. — Mark Twain
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse… — W. Somerset Maugham
Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited),… — Aristotle
We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The… — Jean Baudrillard
Well, as you know, we're working through a difficult period in our financial markets right now as we work off some of the past excesses.… — Henry Paulson
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. — Dennis Potter

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