Excessive Quotes

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It's not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

I have noticed, with much distress, the excessive wartime activity of the investigating bureaus of Congress and the administration, with their impertinent and indecent searching out of the private lives and the past political beliefs of individuals.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.