Excessively Quotes

63 Excessively quotes by 55 unique authors

By far the best cure for hangovers is not drinking excessively the night before.This cure has a 100% success rate, and as you save the… — John Green
Yearning for Allah and His meeting is like the gentle breeze blowing upon the heart, extinguishing the blaze of the Dunya. Whosoever caused his heart… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Whether the teacher is authoritarian, undisciplined, competent, incompetent, serious, irresponsible, involved, a lover of people and of life, cold, angry with the world, bureaucratic, excessively… — Paulo Freire
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful… — Eric Hoffer
There's no question raising the minimum wage excessively causes a loss of jobs. — Mitt Romney
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated? — David Mamet
In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they paid homage. It… — Unknown Author
To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism has sometimes been blurred because an excessively consistent practice of either leads to… — Richard Hofstadter
If someone is starving, excessively exercising or using purging behaviors, then we know they are in a high-risk place for turning on the psychiatric illnesses, — Craig Johnston
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating — Jean Anouilh
When you talk to people about the books that have meant a lot to them, it's usually books they read when they were younger because… — Unknown Author
After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my… — William Henry Ashley
Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals. — Paul Cezanne
The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal.… — Jimmy Carter
Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater. — Yann Martel
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May… — H. Burke Peterson
Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
For one thing, I don't pun excessively in real life. — Tim Vine
Brahma was excessively sparing with earth, water, and fire.... The reckless expenditure of air and ether in his composition was amazing. And, in consequence, he… — Rabindranath Tagore
I've always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively. — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition… — B.F. Skinner
The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions. — Giorgio Napolitano
The best of wages will not compensate for excessively long working hours which undermine heath. — Louis D. Brandeis
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville

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