Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well… — Gro Harlem Brundtland
When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down.… — Erin O'Connor
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship. — P.J. O'Rourke
My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material… — Andy Behrman
As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape… — Ralph Hall
Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat. — Paul Watson
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they live.… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest.… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star. — Alain Ducasse
I think inequality is fine, as long as it is in the common interest. The problem is when it gets so extreme, when it becomes… — Thomas Piketty
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service. — Barry Ritholtz
Excessive literary production is a social offense. — George Eliot
One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune. — Lew Wallace
An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. — John McCarthy
For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the… — Kurt Student
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper… — J. William Fulbright
Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food. — Kate Smith
I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching… — Wendell Willkie
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. — Rem Koolhaas

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