Best 292 quotes in «excess quotes» category

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

Allow not nature more than nature needs.

All Taliban are moderate. There are two things: extremism ['ifraat,' or doing something to excess] and conservatism ['tafreet,' or doing something insufficiently]. So in that sense, we are all moderates - taking the middle path.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.

Anything in excess is a poison.

An excess of hoarded wealth is the death of many.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Anything you can do in excess for the wrong reasons is exciting to me.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged in opposing wrong affords, under the conditions of our mental constitution, but a slender guarantee for being right.

A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

As a businessman, Donald Trump has been associated with some of the worst excesses of a particular style of value-extracting and asset stripping capitalism: set up businesses, let them fail, avoid paying suppliers, use bankruptcy laws to avoid taxes for decades, then set up another business somewhere else. It is this model that is the cause of many problems we see today.

As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

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.

Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.

Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, that the wisest of us all, should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.

Consumerism has led us to become used to an excess and daily waste of food, to which, at times, we are no longer able to give a just value, which goes well beyond mere economic parameters. We should all remember, however, that throwing food away is like stealing from the tables of the the poor, the hungry!

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

Conjuring is a profession in which no one errs through excess of modesty.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Despite the recent conviction of many that we're headed back to inflation, I think deflation remains the more likely prospect. You've just got too much excess capacity in the world.

Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.

Everyone became brave from excess of terror.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Excess always carries its own retribution.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans.

Fame requires every kind of excess. I mean true fame, a devouring neon, not the sombre renown of waning statesmen or chinless kings.

Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

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.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

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.

Giving is the safety valve that releases the excess pressure of wealth.

Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward.

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.