Excessive Quotes
301 quotes by 266 authors
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What do you mean I have a predetermined death?†– Nick “Did I stutter?†– Death “No.†– Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
— Alain de Botton
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excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through…
— Ken Follett
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But it was I, yes I, who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics!
— Woody Allen
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Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I am who I am and there’s nothing wrong with that. The days continue like they always have. They bring neither excessive desire nor despair.…
— Ryohgo Narita
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That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup…
— Charles Bukowski
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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending,…
— Carrie Fisher
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Excessive caution destroys the soul and the heart, because living is an act of courage, and an act of courage is always an act of…
— Paulo Coelho
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The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet…
— Mark Twain
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In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others,…
— Louis IX of France
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Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of…
— Benjamin Graham
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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
— John Milton
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Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve…
— George Washington
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Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.
— Pope Paul VI
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War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome.…
— Susan Sontag
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People have suffered and become insane for centuries by the thought of eternal punishment after death. Wouldn't it be better to depend on blind matter...…
— Baron d'Holbach
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[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make…
— Claude Bernard
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There is nothing particularly scientific about excessive caution. Science thrives on daring generalizations.
— Lancelot Hogben
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