Excess Quotes - Page 31

• Austerity causes constipation; excess, diarrhea.

  Mason Cooley

  Austerity, Causes, Diarrhea

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• An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

  Laurence Tribe

  Law, Rule Of Law

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• The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Vision, Age, Generations

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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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• He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

  Walter Scott

  Men, Two, Reason

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• I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Reflection, Years, Clothes

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.128, Oxford Paperbacks

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• How can I teach your children gentleness and mercy to the weak, and reverence for life, which in its nakedness and excess, is still a gleam of God's omnipotence, when by your laws, your actions and your speech, you contradict the very things I teach?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Children, Law, Omnipotence

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• They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress.

  Todd Snider

  Stress, College, Bullshit

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• [A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

  Bill McCollum

  Expectations, Liberty, Principles

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• We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.

  Camille Paglia

  Speaks Out, Abuse, Twenties

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.18, Vintage

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• I love the excesses of beauty,
  there is never enough sunlight
  in the world I will live in,
  never enough room for love.

  Eric Gamalinda

  World, Rooms, Enough

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• The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."

  Kate Zambreno

  Girl, Writing, Greatness

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Kate Zambreno". Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. November 18, 2012.

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• I train twice a day and I make sure I eat right. I'm an avid tea drinker and I enjoy the benefits of drinking MateFit. It gives me energy, speeds up my metabolism and helps me shed excess water weight. I also do everything from MMA sparring to strength and conditioning. I make sure to do a combination of different things with my training.

  Miesha Tate

  Drinking, Mma, Avid

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

  William Shakespeare

  Gold, Hue, Lilies

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• Poverty makes people sub-human Excess of wealth makes people inhuman

  Groucho Marx

  People, Poverty, Wealth

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• But in the financial markets, without proper institutional rules, there's the law of the jungle - because there's greed! There's nothing wrong with greed, per se. It's not that people are more greedy now than they were 20 years ago. But greed has to be tempered, first, by fear of losses. So if you bail people out, there's less fear. And second, b prudential regulation and supervision to avoid certain excesses.

  Nouriel Roubini

  Loss, Years, Law

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• Help the companion who is insecure; perhaps they do not have enough to supply their needs, while you retain an excess.

  Chico Xavier

  Insecure, Needs, Helping

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• ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Summer, Heart, Wings

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant.

  Joanne Harris

  Inspiration, Loud, Enjoy

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.122, Penguin

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• Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Hope, Pain, World

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426

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• Both belly bulge and love handles are about excess body fat, not lack of muscle. Crunches and ab exercises are therefore not the solution. The best way to reduce these problem areas is to reduce your overall body fat percentage, and we all know that that requires diet and exercise.

  Jillian Michaels

  Loss, Exercise, And Love

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• Allah loves moderation and hates extravagance and excess.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Hate, Extravagance

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• Withhold no good impulse. You may fear that you will run to excess and squander too much, but those feelings are born of fear. In God's reality, the more you give of yourself-in feeling, generosity, self-expression, goodness, creativity, and love-the more you will be given.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Positive, God

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• With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

  Ann Coulter

  Cancer, Japan, Earthquakes

  "A Glowing Report on Radiation". humanevents.com. March 16, 2011.

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• One of the most admirable effects of Holy Communion is to preserve the soul from sin, and to help those who fall through weakness to rise again. It is much more profitable, then, to approach this divine Sacrament with love, respect, and confidence, than to remain away through an excess of fear and scrupulosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Christian, Fall, Soul

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