Our Excessive Quotes
- Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general… — Emile Durkheim
- We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to… — Randolph Bourne
- 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
- By speaking of greater forces than we can possibly invoke, and by confronting us with greater spans of time than we can possibly envisage, mountains… — Robert Macfarlane
- For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the… — Kurt Student
- In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper… — J. William Fulbright