Quotes About Excess

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

I have too many to count. Put it this way, I rival my wife with the amount of shoes she has in Jordans.

There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

I always wanted to be a main eventer in pro wrestling. I lived my dream, but the excess of the '80s and the huge money of the '90s became a great temptation for many of us.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

I think the main reason is that people binge watch because they can. We're like dogs, really. If we like something, we tend to gorge ourselves on it until there's no more left. And as bingeing becomes possible and commonplace, it's only natural that shows should start to take it into account.

I tend to overdo things.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

We must be aware of consumerism! That's our tendency. It's the capitalistic curse that we were poisoned with. We should spend only what is necessary. How do you call the big cars, the latest ones? Hummer! Not a single dollar to import Hummers! What is that? What is that? What kind of revolution is this? One of Hummers? No way!

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

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

Slack is actually a technical term in product management that means the excess capacity the system has to absorb any failures or to take on new work. That's something that was really on our minds when we came up with it.

I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

In my extreme youth I did a terrifying diet - drinking 40 cups of liquid a day.

Decadence begins with the loss of restraint.

sin el agobio del tiempo, pues tiempo era lo que sobraba, que es acaso lo que distingue a una democracia, el tiempo sobrante, la plusvalía de tiempo, tiempo para leer y tiempo para pensar

Excess is success.

Grain may rot in the warehouse while hungry people starve because they cannot pay for it. The result is famine for some and diseases of excess for others. The very earth that sustains us is being destroyed to fuel injustice. An economy that grants personhood to corporations but denies it to the more-than-human beings: this is a Windigo economy.

Cocaine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.

What better place to look for trash than in America - the land of consumption and waste?

Way I figure, once a drop is enough to kill you, any more you add makes no difference." "A reasonable argument." No it's not, it's insane!

a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents.