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Quotations on Excess 29 Quotes Found For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen. I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don't carry anything around with me - no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it's too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective - your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Never order food in excess of your body weight. 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. The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later. A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything. I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends. Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status. Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards. We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess. I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess. One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess. Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects. 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. Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. Pride and excess bring disaster for man. |
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