Excessive Quotes

• There is a situation where pro-democracy demonstrations have been met with suppression and excessive use of force which has further aggravated the situation and undermines the process of healing and reconciliation which is the only way to resolve the current impasse.

  

  Anand Sharma
  • Democracy
  • Force
  • Healing

• I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Machine
  • Excessive
  • Rotations

• It looks now as if everything has been profitable to me. And if the payment has sometimes been excessive, it was afer all the payment, for life, and there cannot be and is no excessive payment for life.

  

  Nina Berberova
  • Life
  • Payment
  • Excessive

• It is a fair question whether the results of these things have induced among us in a large class of well-to-do people, with little muscular activity, a habit of excessive eating [particularly fats and sweets] and may be responsible for great damage to health, to say nothing of the purse.

  

  Wilbur Olin Atwater
  • Question
  • Health
  • Responsible

• Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Amusement
  • Excessive
  • Allures

• Dark with excessive bright.

  

  John Milton
  • Dark
  • Bright
  • Excessive

• Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Solitude
  • Aim
  • Excessive

• The market has a simple way of whittling all excessive pride and overblown egos down to size. After all, the whole idea is to be completely objective and recognize what the marketplace is telling you, rather than try to prove that the thing you said or did yesterday or six weeks ago was right. The fastest way to take a bath in the stock market or go broke is to try to prove that you are right and the market is wrong.

  

  William J. O'Neil
  • Trying
  • Simple
  • Marketplace