Excessively Quotes
63 quotes by 55 authors
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Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That…
— Oscar Wilde
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As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had…
— Georgette Heyer
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He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any…
— Jane Austen
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The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on…
— Alice Miller
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He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life.
— Henning Mankell
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You hit me the instant I saw you." he said, gruffly. "I couldn't look away. I wanted you immediately. Excessively. Almost violently.
— Sylvia Day
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Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being…
— Albert Einstein
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They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes…
— Aristotle
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To lack confidence is to have feelings of low self-worth. We are preoccupied with our weaknesses, and we lack faith in the Lord's ability to…
— Glenn L. Pace
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My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has…
— George W. Romney
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Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.
— Diane Setterfield
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I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not…
— John Shimkus
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say…
— Barry Ritholtz
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If you are not making any mistakes, you are being excessively risk-averse. Investing involves risk, and that means you will occasionally be wrong. And although…
— Barry Ritholtz
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have…
— Virginia Woolf
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We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided…
— Tony Judt
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Shyness is about the fear of social judgments - at a job interview or a party you might be excessively worried about what people think…
— Susan Cain
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Your lips, delicate and yielding, yet warm and soggy, brush against mine, temporarily from the beginning and after that with a solidness that sends joys…
— Unknown Author
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
— Ian Jackson
Who Wrote These Excessively Quotes
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