Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I'm not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25… — Carl Hiaasen
I don't want to drive the markets crazy. I don't want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle… — Francois Hollande
Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean. — Neil Young
The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip… — Gelsey Kirkland
The Electroshock Novelist: The Alluring Bad Boy of Literary England Has Always Been Fascinated by Britain's Dustbin Empire. Now Martin Amis Takes On American Excess, — Sam Tanenhaus
Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. — Wyndham Lewis
You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre… — Stephen Daldry
In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system,… — Lee R. Raymond
Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count… — Dorotheus of Gaza
As a myth of national purpose and as a program for individual conduct, the simple life has, in a sense, served as the nation's conscience,… — David Shi
The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For… — Stuart L. Hart
We reform the system. We save capitalism from its own excesses. — Robert Reich
In everything the middle course is the best; everything in excess brings trouble. — Plautus
Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would… — Victor Hugo
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause,… — Arthur Koestler
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen… — Samuel Rogers
As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery. — Norman Mailer
Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. — Calvin Trillin

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