Top 180 Excess Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

Whether you are checking luggage or bringing a carry-on, always weigh and measure your bags to make sure they are below the airline’s size and weight restrictions. Excess baggage fees can be costly. Avoid all baggage fees by only bringing a carry-on.

Loyalty is a fine quality, but in excess it fills political graveyards.

Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense – very far in excess of one-half of one per cent – into their otherwise sober documents.

Empires implode from within due to their own excesses.

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

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

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

We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty.

I have cut away what I call the excess stuff in my life.

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.

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.

Sometimes I did three shows a day and I’d go to the gym. I was exercising excessively and cut out many meals.

Mars Volta was always about embracing what ‘too much’ was and the excess of it. I never thought there would be an audience for it.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia – reduced levels of oxygen that create conditions in which organisms can’t survive.

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.

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

I try to beat back the producers and engineers so they – there’s not an excess of stuff used to squeeze my voice to make it artificial. There’s a person in there, and people will listen; if they hear another person speak to them, they’ll listen because it’s lonely out here.

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.

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.

Over the years, I’ve found myself drawn more and more to simpler meals, to dishes that are focused, and to experiences that strip away the excess.

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

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.

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.

Obviously you have to make a profit to put out a newspaper. I’m not an idiot. But when the margins are in excess of 25 per cent you’re talking about greed.

The U.S. has been living in a situation of excesses for too long. Consumers were out spending more than their income and the country was spending more than its income, running up large current-account deficits. Now we have to tighten our belts and save more.

I like excess. And giant M&M’s.

My father always cooks more polenta than he needs for a meal. The excess he spreads on an oiled surface and chills. Next day, he cuts out chunks, fries them in olive oil and serves with salad.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

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.

I’ve always followed the rule that anything worth doing is worth doing excessively.

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.

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

My theory is that balance is key – nothing in excess.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Civic poetry is public poetry. It is political poetry. It is about the hard stuff of life: money, crime, gender, corporate excess, racial injustice. It gives expression not just to our rites but also to our problems and even our values; these poems are not about rustic vacations.

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?

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

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.

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.

The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It’s working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they’re just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry.

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

The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don’t have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.

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

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

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

I am extremely suspicious of dreams, apparitions and visions, both in literature and in films and plays. Perhaps it’s because mental excesses of this sort smack too much of being ‘arranged.’

Clogged with yesterday’s excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

I said that there is considerable alienation among the people of Kashmir which is primarily because of the human rights excesses by the security forces in Kashmir and the impunity from prosecution given to them by the Armed Forces Special Powers Act.

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.

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

How do I have to continue to excessively prove myself and always be the underdog? I don’t get the respect I deserve, and that leads me to believe that maybe it is a colour issue.

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.