Excessively Quotes

63 Excessively quotes by 55 unique authors

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 Muller
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
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
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
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
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
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
He was so excessively polite that Wallendar suspected he had endured many humiliations in his life. — Henning Mankell
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
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
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
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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