Excess Quotes
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Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
Plato
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We never search for scandal, but we use it if it cries out to excess.
Peter Utley
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one`s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Subject: Excess Quotes :: Moderation QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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`Tis not the eating, nor `tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess
John Selden
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What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating
Jean Anouilh
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An excess of courtesy is discourtesy
Japanese Proverb
Subject: Courtesy Quotes :: Excess QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Hippocrates
Subject: Excess Quotes :: Nature QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
Euripides
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
Clarence Day
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
Charles Caleb Colton
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Excess of meats bringeth sickness
Bible
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In charity there is no excess.
Francis Bacon
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Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
William Blake
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Excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps.
William Blake
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Oscar Wilde
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I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we`re seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve-to-twenty-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US...
Harrison Ford
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[Her explanation for bringing excess luggage to London in 1969 for her year long stint on stage as `Mame`] "I believe in dressing for the occasion. There`s a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz. As for the little touche...
Ginger Rogers
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I really don`t drink, I don`t do drugs. I feel like right now I`ve been given so many opportunities I don`t want to mess it up with those things ... I think I was raised in a solidly upper-middle class family who had really strong values and excess was no...
Anne Hathaway
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The person who`s had the most impact on acting since Marlon Brando, the only person who`s really changed acting, is Julia Roberts. I call it the Julia Roberts School of Acting. It`s an excess of competence. She`s got all these imitators, and they just bas...
Ethan Hawke
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You`re in a mess, and in excess.
Billy Strayhorn
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While there is a lot of focus on children the numbers tell me that the magnitude of the excess risk is quite profound in adults.
Barbara Raasch
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When you have energy companies like Shell and British Petroleum, both of which are perhaps represented in this room, saying there is a problem with excess carbon dioxide emission, I think we ought to listen.
James Baker
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well in excess of the four-to-one ratio the U.S. Supreme Court has suggested approaches the constitutional limit of such awards.
Philip Morris
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We`d dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
Bing Crosby
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We might contract with them to sell excess water.
David Crockett
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We have grown from a company that did $5 (million) to $7 million a year 18 years ago to one that now does in excess of $60 million a year.
Jimmy Walker
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We believe that we will continue to experience incoming order rates in excess of quarterly revenues for several quarters, although quarterly bookings will remain volatile. Critical to our success will be the ability to meet the needs of our major customer...
Angie Watson
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We are a country of excess. So it`s not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.
Norman Lear
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We achieved our fourth consecutive quarter of net income in excess of $1 billion and the highest net income ever reported by the company in a non-Christmas quarter in our history.
Anthony Owens
