Quotes About Excess

Growth for growth's sake is not a good strategy and, according to Collins, is the beginning of the end. Big is not the same as great, and neither is bigger necessarily more profitable.

the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime's supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,

She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess.

That meant that he'd drunk too much too early, and had popped an Alcoterm to burn it off.

Low blood pressure, on the other hand, is: blood pressure values below 140/70 are associated with excess mortality in the elderly, and this is especially noticeable when drugs push down the diastolic blood pressure too low.14 Systolic pressure is the first, higher number; it represents the force of the heart pumping against the resistance offered by the blood vessel walls.

In conclusion, to assure omega-3 adequacy, unless blood tests demonstrate otherwise, I recommend 100 to 200 milligrams a day of DHA, plus 1 tablespoon of ground flax seeds for ALA. Bear in mind: all nutrients can be harmful in deficiency or excess.

He had several rings, a gold identification bracelet, and a gold bracelet watch, and he carried a heavy gold cigarette case, set with jewels. The case was empty, and Evarts furnished him with cigarettes as they talked.

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

We live in an era of consumerism and it's all about desire-based consumerism and it has nothing to do with things we actually need.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

The poor lack much, the greedy everything.

When sages commend excess, Desire is sick.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

The percentage you're paying is too high priced While you're living beyond all your means And the man in the suit has just bought a new car From the profit he's made on your dreams.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.

Americans are overreaching; overreaching is the most admirable and most American of the many American excesses.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

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