Excess Quotes

540 Excess quotes by 425 unique authors

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
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
O Allah do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient. — Unknown Author
Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
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
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
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
Writing means revealing oneself to excess. — Franz Kafka
At the beginning of their careers many writers have a need to overwrite. They choose carefully turned-out phrases; they want to impress their readers with… — Jorge Luis Borges
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded convivial excesses, as… — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene,… — Aaron Siskind
It may be thought justifiable to require tests on animals of potentially life-saving drugs, but the same kinds of tests are used for products like… — Peter Singer
If wine disappeared from human production, I believe there would be, in the health and intellect of the planet, a void, a deficiency far more… — Charles Baudelaire
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their… — Adam Smith
Wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises. — Miguel de Cervantes
Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows… — Unknown Author
We should travel light and live simply. Our enemy is not possessions but excess. — John Stott
I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's… — Frederick Forsyth
It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions… — Pope John Paul II
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots. — Elbridge Gerry
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. — Charles Dickens

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