Excess Quotes - Page 11

• Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

  Date Masamune

  Weakness, Rectitude, Stiffness

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• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, Brain, Habitat

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf

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• I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed

  Carnie Wilson

  Skins, Needed

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• Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess

  Ian Christie

  Religious, Teaching, Future

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• Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Pain, Blood, Too Much

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.16, Stanford University Press

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• Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Like You, Feeding

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• We cannot live without trade. A society can neither advance nor improve without excess of disposable income. This excess can only be amassed through the production of goods and services necessary or attractive to the mass. A financial system which allows this leads to inequality; one that does not leads to mass starvation.

  David Mamet

  Doe, Income, Financial

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.8, Penguin

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• To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Errors, Names, Abuse

  Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Ḥalimī (1962). “Djamila Boupacha: the story of the torture of a young Algerian girl which shocked liberal French opinion”, Andre Deutsch

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• Reality is a creation of our excesses.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Reality, Creation

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don't know when to come down.

  Mo Rocca

  Christmas, Stars, Shopping

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

  Agatha Christie

  Sympathy, Drunk, Judging

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Relationship, Country, Husband

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

  Ralph Blum

  Acceptance, Self, Balance

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• A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

  Plato

  Laughter, Plato, Fit

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.271, Xist Publishing

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• Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

  Plato

  Greed, Democracy, Way

  Plato (1963). “The Republic”

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• The significance and influence of just one BNP councillor is far in excess of the council powers such an elected figure can, in reality, command.

  Steve Blake

  Reality, Influence, Figures

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• But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.

  John Stuart Mill

  Individuality, Individualism, Human Nature

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.197, Hackett Publishing

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• As it acts in the world, the Tao is like the bending of a bow. The top is bent downward; the bottom is bent up. It adjusts excess and deficiency so that there is perfect balance.

  Laozi

  Perfect, Taoism, Balance

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• People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Wall, People, Upset

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• The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example.

  Andy Grove

  Money, Healthy, Example

  "Andy Grove's Rational Exuberance". Interview with John Heilemann, www.wired.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Your profits are going to be cut down to a reasonably low level by taxation. Your income will be subject to higher taxes. Indeed in these days, when every available dollar should go to the war effort, I do not think that any American citizen should have a net income in excess of $25,000 per year after payment of taxes.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  War, Cutting, Thinking

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1950). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1942, Volume 11”, p.232, Best Books on

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• Not because Socrates said so, but because it is in truth my own disposition — and perchance to some excess — I look upon all men as my compatriots, and embrace a Pole as a Frenchman, making less account of the national than of the universal and common bond.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Looks, Common

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 9, 1595.

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• Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

  Bernard Tschumi

  Delight, Prohibition, Crime

  Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.66, MIT Press

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• O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

  William Shakespeare

  Rain, Love Is, Joy

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, Edward Capell, Samuel Johnson (1821). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.205

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• ...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith conservatives like me profess) and hold laissez faire attitudes about the use and abuse of the natural world.

  Rod Dreher

  Christian, Attitude, Self

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