Top 140 Excess Quotes

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

The growing influence of focus groups means we are all in danger of being excessively cowed by their feedback.

James is a domineering alpha male which is why I’m so attracted to him and why I sometimes hate him. And I’m a mouthy broad who has to be in control all the time. We must have broken up in excess of a thousand times.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

I love the excess of Christmas. The shopping season that begins in September, the bad pop star recordings of Christmas carols, the decorations that don’t know when to come down.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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.

There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere – some are ludicrous, others are at least worth study. The most commonly discussed plan is to lace the sky with reflective chemicals.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I’m used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

People are rightfully upset about Wall Street abuses and excess.

Personally I don’t like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

We will downsize the government, motivate excess employees to become entrepreneurs, and increase the pay of a lean and mean bureaucracy.

The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we’re seeing today are far from unprecedented.

The use of torture on suspected terrorists after Sept. 11 has already earned a place in American history’s hall of shame, alongside the Alien and Sedition Acts, Japanese internment during World War II, and the excesses of the McCarthy era.

Seeing Taylor Swift live in 2013 is seeing a maestro at the top of her or anyone‘s game. No other pop auteur can touch her right now for emotional excess or musical reach – her punk is so punk, her disco is so disco. The red sequins on her guitar match the ones on her microphone, her shoes and 80 percent of the crowd.

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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.

As a political metaphor, a revolution could, in that sense, mean only a return to better times, or to the true constitution: a ridding of excess or usurpers.

The nature of markets, and that includes player acquisition markets, is such that sooner or later any set of successful formulae that provide an excess return above investment are discounted.

I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.

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

But we had – I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n’ roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn’t see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren’t in control of your wits.

The framers hated the tyranny of King George, but they were also afraid of the mob. That’s why they put so many checks and balances into our system, to guard against the excesses of a government that might be inflamed by public passion or perverted by a dictator‘s whim.

The war to rein in Wall Street excess is never over.

Most chief executives rise to that position by being good operating managers. Few have extensive experience or training with capital allocation. What CEO wants to return excess cash to shareholders when it could be used to expand his or her empire?

In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we’d love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn’t need it and withdraw it when they did need it.

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

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

I’m the guy who’s started businesses, I’ve been a small business owner. I’ve employed hundreds of Pennsylvanians. I know how to get jobs moving in the private sector, rein in the excesses in Washington, and bring some balance to a town that’s lost all balance.

Ask me whether inflation represents longer-term problem. I think there’s a potential there for excess reserves to create problems.

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

No country can be complacent in making sure that excessive debt of the household doesn’t create excesses and weaknesses in the financial system. Everything is interconnected.

Excess is success.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

There is moderation even in excess.

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.

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.

You can only realize change if you live simply. Once people want enormous excess, you can hardly do social change.

If we do another ‘Deadpool,’ we’d love to have more money for visual effects. But I don’t think anybody does good with an excess of time or money.

There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

I think I don’t regret a single ‘excess’ of my responsive youth – I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.

From time to time, an excessively strong dollar may have negative short-term implications on the economy.

An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Pride and excess bring disaster for man.

I eat meat, poultry and fish in proper proportion – nothing to excess.

What began as a subprime lending problem has spread to other, less risky mortgages and contributed to excess home inventories that have pushed down home prices for responsible homeowners.

In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practically always very nearly atmospheric, and must be so, because the integuments give way very easily to any excess of pressure, whether positive or negative.

Among other objectives, liquidity guidelines must take into account the risks that inadequate liquidity planning by major financial firms pose for the broader financial system, and they must ensure that these firms do not become excessively reliant on liquidity support from the central bank.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

I think we have to understand that sugar is an essential component of food; it’s just that sugar in excess is an inappropriate and unhelpful diet.

You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Canadians need to start thinking of themselves as a petrostate, and they need to start thinking of the kinds of controls needed to protect the country from the excesses of oil.

Television’s escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one’s means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the pressures and miseries that come with excess.

I guess anything in excess is no good for you, even things that are supposed to be healthy.

Excessively narrow reading is unhelpful, certainly. Reading only Serious Literature is no better than reading only trash in this respect.

From the ashes of Bauhaus, Love and Rockets transformed its grandiosity and excesses into boldness and virtuosity. Plus, it wasn’t afraid of a catchy hook or two.

Muhammad Ali was unquestionably one of the greatest boxers of the 20th century and a sincere advocate for his religious beliefs. In his life, he defeated the best professional boxers of his era, some of them more than once, which meant he was easily forgiven the excesses of his ringside braggadocio.

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

I’m a conservative because I believe we’re here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

The financial crisis and the Great Recession left firms with excess capacity, reducing incentives to invest. If businesses expect slower growth to continue, that will also hold down investment.

Pincurling is my secret! I wear my hair wavy alot, and so I don’t have to use all that excess heat every day trying to curl it; I just pincurl it.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it’s God‘s will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don’t think I did.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

A common mistake made by amateurs is that they fail to take advantage of players who bluff excessively. Instead of playing possum and letting their aggressive opponents continue to bet, beginners raise too early with monster hands, allowing their opponents to fold.

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

People saw the Depression as a necessary thing – a chance to squeeze out the excesses, get back to Puritan morality. That just made things worse.

A healthy mind and body are essential. No excesses. Proper food. The body is like a Rolls-Royce. With care, it could last 200 years. It’s a dynamo; the more you use it, the more you recharge it.

Government attempts to ban fracking should be aborted. The government should lift the burdensome regulations that have made the construction of nuclear power plants excessively expensive, thereby freeing up even more natural gas for direct use or for methanol manufacture.

I have always found that if I came in excessively prepared, emphasis on excessively, that was sort of the best case I could make for myself.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Language is wild – you can’t fence it or tell it what to do – and it’s the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I’d rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

I need to be fit and strong, and I don’t want to carry any excess fat.

We lived in this ghetto during the worst excesses of the Seventies. When the tartan gangs came to wreck our estate, we had to defend it. We were barricaded in with diggers and earth-movers. It wasn’t a case of joining the Republican cause, or the IRA – we were fighting for our very existence.

I’ve had a very, very interesting view of the planet over the last 30 years, touring as excessively as I have. And music is the most evocative, transformative, connective force in humanity, man.

I don’t necessarily believe in moderation, but I do believe in the dangers of excess, and that’s with some good things too.

It’s important that when you do standup, you do small places like coffee shops and also big places like colleges. It helps you find the little nuances in your set that don’t work, and you can shave off the excess.

This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess.

I’ve always had these morals I’ve sort of put on myself: that excess is bad. I used to be into Buddhism and stuff. I was vegetarian. I was all about shutting things out.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn’t?

I think I can safely say that, as adolescents, most people have excess energy to spare and need adventure, excitement, and a challenge.

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

My religion is my most precious possession. Except for it, I could easily have become excessively occupied with industry. Sharing responsibility for church work has been a vital counterbalance in my life.

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power – the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government – for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

My conscience is really active. So I feel bad about spending excess amount of money on things.

To be a legend, you’ve either got to be dead or excessively old!

The country will also need ‘new forms of social welfare‘ instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

The chief beginning of evil is goodness in excess.

If you are in support of in vitro fertilization, then you have to recognize that human embryos are being created in excess of what can be used safely to reimplant for a pregnancy. So they’re going to end up being discarded.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

Job growth well in excess of population increase would be a very good thing if it were only that easy.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.

I’m not intensely private – I talk a great deal about my life and my work – I just don’t play the game to excess.

Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.

I just love glamour so any time period that had a lot of excess and glamour, I draw inspiration from. All the stuff from the 60s and 70s, very specific times in the 80s.

If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.

While football embarrassingly exposes the excesses of capitalism, the Olympic sports have been used to propagate the neoliberal mantra that success is simply a matter of hard work.

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.

There are more things to gain from eliminating excess than you might imagine: time, space, freedom, and energy, for example.

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.

Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to penetrate the palladium electrode. This can take a few weeks. Then, if excess heat is generated during the next month or two, accurate temperature readings require extreme precautions to exclude environmental effects.

This desire for equity must not lead to an excess of welfare, where nobody is responsible for anything.

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

What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating.

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.

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.

Real short- and long-term rates were relatively high in the late-1990s, so financial excess can also arise without a low-rate environment.

There are fads in life and old people indulge things to excess sometimes.

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure – so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.

I’m sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that’s my general style.

It is evident that the grip of ‘The Return of the King’ on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it’s tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

The IP system is an artificial construct that excessively rewards owners of intellectual property, granting them monopolies over inventions and ideas that, in many cases, are the product of generations of thinkers and/or publicly funded research.

When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

I don’t want to drive the markets crazy. I don’t want to create trouble, but rather order and rules and norms. We have to struggle against financial excesses, those who speculate with sovereign debt, those who develop financial products which have done so much harm.

In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Americans rightly, but sometimes excessively, celebrate every person in uniform as a hero, but seldom honor the difficult and often dangerous work being done day after day by members of our diplomatic corps. Warriors capture the popular imagination more easily than peacemakers.

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.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

You’re in a mess, and in excess.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

I can’t think of a time in the history of man when food was in excess. We’re dealing with the same old problems we’ve dealt with for 60,000 years.

‘Star Wars‘ is life, but ‘Star Wars’ is also not very good, which is why ‘Rogue One’ – a Frankenstein‘s monster assembled from a butchered first cut and an excessively large space antenna that only exists to add another 30 minutes to the film – is one of the better ‘Star Wars’ movies.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.