Excessively Quotes

63 quotes by 57 authors

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
As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching… — Charles Darwin
Consider that worrying excessively about another person, especially a loved one, is a destructive act. It causes you emotional distress which prevents you from being… — Hal Elrod
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively. — Carl Jung
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these… — Diana Trilling
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure… — Edgar Allan Poe
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it… — John W. Gardner
Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal. — Gustave Flaubert
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. — D. H. Lawrence
Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are… — Shirley MacLaine
But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused… — Robert Mueller
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it… — Edgar Allan Poe
When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy. — Salman Rushdie
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring. — Oscar Wilde
I am excessively diverted. — Jane Austen
If you stumble over mere believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask… — Yann Martel

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