Excess Quotes

540 quotes by 425 authors

The high-handed bureaucratic excesses of the IRS are a national disgrace ... riding roughshod over the taxpayers and making a joke out of our rule… — Paul Laxalt
There is a simple way of avoiding excess risk-taking by the managers of our financial institutions. It is to make it a crime ... had… — Paul Collier
Excess and deficiency are equally at fault. — Confucius
Nothing is of its nature evil, and nothing is of its nature good. Evil is only excess, good is simply balance. All things are subject… — Unknown Author
So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness;… — Laozi
Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the… — James A. Baldwin
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire to impress others… — Hugh Nibley
If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind… — David Lee Roth
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess. — John Selden
Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there… — John Selden
My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess. — L'Wren Scott
The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal;… — James F. Cooper
If our leaders are to enjoy the trappings of their position in the hierarchy, then we expect them to offer us protection. The problem is,… — Simon Sinek
Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses. — Rembrandt
In the Gaia theory air, water, and soil are major components of one central organism, planet Earth. What we typically think of as life -… — David Easton
There are two kinds of businesses: The first earns 12%, and you can take it out at the end of the year. The second earns… — Charlie Munger
Why not begin operating under the idea that God has given us excess, not so we could have more, but so we could give more? — David Platt
America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to… — Kalle Lasn
I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological,… — Gerhard
All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. — James Young

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