Quotes About Excess

My life just got taken over by my cooking. If you don't have any discipline, which I don't, you can make 10 gallons of chocolate mousse, take a spoonful and another and another, and you won't realize you've eaten like five servings of it. It's just what you do.

I hate luxury for luxury's sake. I find it not just brash but societally disruptive. It's just another mechanism of manufacturing discontent by building a thing that most people want but can never have.

See, I will always shop, and that's sort of a problem. Clothes are always exploding out of my closet!

I live in the extremes.

I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.

a multitudinous mess of life's unnecessities.

He looked exactly what he was: a large ex-boxer who smoked too much and ate too much fast food.

That's how the rich stay rich, ain't it? They didn' need it, but they didn' mind a bit more.

Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever," Catherine wrote to Grimm in 1779. "It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more you build, the more you want to build. It's a sickness like being addicted to alcohol.

The world's going a little berserk. Too much greed and not enough good sense.

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies

the amorous subject wonders, not whether he should declare his love to the loved being,..., but to what degree he should conceal the turbulences of his passion, his desires, his distresses: in short, his excesses.

Again and again in his career, Hamilton committed the same political error: he never knew when to stop, and the resulting excesses led him into irremediable indiscretions.

A lifelong Methodist, he had always viewed religious excess with a certain irony, having once told a clutch of ministers that America boasted three parties: Democrats, Republicans, and Methodists.

Had Rockefeller not feared his own capacity for excess, he wouldn't have engaged in such strenuous introspection.

Where revolutions, by their nature, resisted excess government power, the opposite situation could be equally hazardous. "As too much power leads to despotism, too little leads to anarchy, and both eventually to the ruin of the people.

Nonetheless, the producers, repeating past errors, exercised no discipline and drilled far beyond the system's capacity.

In a similar vein, Rockefeller was concerned that if he advertised his own wealth through fancy houses, he might attract investors into the refining business and only worsen the excess capacity problem.

Perhaps the most important point made in this context is the distinction between two kinds of the art of measurement: one kind which considers the greater and less in relation to one another, and another kind which considers the greater and less (now understood as excess and defect) in relation to the mean or, say, the fitting, or something similar. All arts, and especially the kingly art, make their measurements with a view to the right mean or the fitting, i.e., they are not mathematical.

You mean you ca'n't take less," said the Hatter: "it's very easy to take more than nothing.

With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.

Sí, era demasiado. Por dentro se sentía como si fuera demasiado continuamente.

No, wait, I drink any more java, I'm gonna start pissing Colombians.