Excess Quotes
540 quotes by 425 authors
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Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
— H. L. Mencken
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When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt;…
— Stephen King
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Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity…
— Adolf Hitler
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It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity…
— Edward Tufte
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Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
— James Madison
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What we should be very concerned about is the excesses and the abuses. Where we see hunts where the fox is torn away out of…
— Unknown Author
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Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat)…
— Calvin Trillin
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For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.
— Euripides
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Bubbles are best identified by credit excesses, not valuation excesses. And there's no bigger credit excess than in China.
— James Chanos
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O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament…
— Columba Marmion
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The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done…
— Isidore of Seville
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O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient.
— Unknown Author
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Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.
— Unknown Author
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Winter regularly takes many more lives than any heat wave: 25,000 to 50,000 each year die in Britain from excess cold. Across Europe, there are…
— Bjorn Lomborg
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We can't tell an electorate...when you have something like in excess of 300 million people without any access to electricity at all that you have…
— Unknown Author
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This so-called ill treatment and torture in detention centers, stories of which were spread everywhere among the people, and later by the prisoners who were…
— Unknown Author
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Nuclear terrorism is still often treated as science fiction. I wish it were. But unfortunately we live in a world of excess hazardous materials and…
— Kofi Annan
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Rock 'n' Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments…
— Greil Marcus
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So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which…
— Aristotle
Who Wrote These Excess Quotes
425 authors contributed a total of 540 Excess Quotes, led by these top contributors: