Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that, — Kate Winslet
All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the… — Robert D. Hales
Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and… — Barry Loudermilk
The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind. Listening is much more effective than… — Ajahn Amaro
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE… — Orlando Figes
More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did… — James McGreevey
Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive. — Joan Didion
To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young,… — Robert A. Heinlein
A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed… — Victor Hugo
Excessive concern with religion seems to me a last resort for people who have been exhausted by life. — Naguib Mahfouz
Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive. — Catherine Helen Spence
I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman… — Margaret Fuller
The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all… — Plato
The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self. — Plato
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they… — Plato
The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. — Plato
Young children are unlikely to have their self-esteem strengthened from excessive praise or flattery. On the contrary, it may raise some doubts in children; many… — Lilian Katz
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desiresâ€”the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery. — Derek Lin
I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food. — Mark Hyman, M.D.

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