Excess Quotes
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What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
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Allow not nature more than nature needs.
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I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.
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Nothing exceeds like excess.
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Producing a photographic document involves preparation in excess. There is first the examination of the idea of the project. Then the visits to the scene, the casual conversations, and more formal interviews - talking, and listening, and looking, looking. ... And finally, the pictures themselves, each one planned, talked, taken and examined in terms of the whole.
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Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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Is not the action of nature like the stretching of a bow? The high, it pulls down; the low, it lifts up; It takes from what is in excess In order to make good of what is deficient. Who can take what they have in excess and offer it to others?
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But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions did not apply. And that led to a lot of excesses in Afghanistan, excesses like Abu Ghraib that were already well-publicized.
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A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.
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People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.
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Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.
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Crime is a product of social excess.
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Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much. If she had loved him more there'd be no difficulty.
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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
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We're still in the early stages (of recovery). The market is still suffering from excess capacity on the North Atlantic.
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I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism.
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Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
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For our excess we lost everything.
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When you've tasted excess, everything else tastes bland.
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We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.
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Whenever we have excess, giving should be our natural response. It should be the automatic decision, the obvious thing to do in light of Scripture and human need.
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When I stand on my special-issue "Intelligent Investor" ladder and peer out over the frenzied crowd, I see very few others doing the same. Many stocks remain overvalued, and speculative excess - both on the upside and on the downside - is embedded in the frenzy around stocks of all stripes. And yes, I am talking about March 2001, not March 2000.
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Nothing Succeeds like excess!
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
