Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

â€¦he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the… — John Updike
Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults… — Paul Brunton
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the… — Galileo Galilei
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity… — Bertrand Russell
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! — Joseph Heller
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and… — Francis Chan
Don't be offended, but you seem to be one of those people who just attract accidents like a magnet. So . . . try not… — Stephenie Meyer
I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his… — James A. Baldwin
People will always prefer black-and-white over shades of grey, and so there will always be the temptation to hold overly-simplified beliefs and to hold them… — Thomas Gilovich
There was a saying that the strength of a manâ€™s steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a… — Alison Goodman
The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded nobility in excessive,… — Mary Roach
But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away. — Margaret Atwood
I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will… — Alexandre Dumas
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours… — Thomas Hardy
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological — Arthur C. Clarke
Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rick as what they are -- a… — Ha-Joon Chang
...and sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of… — Nikolai Gogol
You've certainly mellowed out... you used to be fun, full of life and emotion. Lust, Greed, Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, and Pride. Of course, excessive… — Hiromu Arakawa

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