Excess Quotes - Page 6

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

Excess makes the heart grow fonder.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

There are hardly any excesses of the most crazed psychopath that cannot easily be duplicated by a normal kindly family man who just comes in to work every day and has a job to do.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

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.

Stock market corrections, although painful at the time, are actually a very healthy part of the whole mechanism, because there are always speculative excesses that develop, particularly during the long bull market.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!

The worst excesses of the Congress of the 1980s pale in comparison with what is going on in Washington today.

Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

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.

I would rather have regrets of excess than regrets of denial.

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.