Excessive Quotes

301 quotes by 266 authors

Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they do… — Barbara Tuchman
Show me a novelist â€“ or, indeed, a reader â€“ who wasnâ€™t a socially awkward, self-conscious adolescent, prone to clumsiness and excessive reading and Iâ€™llâ€¦… — Charlotte Mendelson
Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles. — Peter J. Carroll
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others to… — Noam Chomsky
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it — Robert Doisneau
At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart — Robert Holden
Errors have nothing to do with luck; they are caused by time pressure, discomfort or unfamiliarilty with a position, distractions, feelings of intimidation, nervous tension,… — Pal Benko
There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality… — Walter Brueggemann
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly and at great length. If not… — William Gibson
Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living. — William Shakespeare
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable. — Chanakya
Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?! — Geraldo Rivera
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. — Plato
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal. — Hunter S. Thompson
Amusement should be used to do us good â€œlike a medicineâ€: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all… — Charles Spurgeon
Grace is inexplicable, inappropriate, out of bounds, offensive, excessive, & given to the wrong people. — Michael Spencer
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers… — Pachomius the Great
Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no… — Thomas a Kempis
Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it. — Ernie Els

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