Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact with… — Sylvia Earle
The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents. That,… — Sylvia Earle
Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was… — Rahm Emanuel
There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to… — Paul Engle
Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me. — Carrie Fisher
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic… — Jim Hightower
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I… — Henry James
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and… — John Keats
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in… — Walter Savage Landor
I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess. — Annie Lennox
Crime is a product of social excess. — Vladimir Lenin
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or… — James Madison
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. — W. Somerset Maugham
I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. — Robert Morgan
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. — Camille Paglia
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage. — Plutarch
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film… — Robert Redford
There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. — Salman Rushdie
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason,… — Jonathan Sacks
Sensual excess drives out pity in man. — Marquis de Sade
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the… — Tom Shales
Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young… — Charlie Sheen
Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone's game. No other pop auteur can touch her… — Rob Sheffield

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