Quotes About Excess

I was a drunk. You have to be richer than I was to be an alcoholic.

A crude culture makes a coarse people, and private refinement cannot long survive public excess. There is a Gresham's law of culture as well as of money: the bad drives out the good, unless the good is defended.

Such extravagance! Gerhardt complained to Jennie. Such waste! No good can come of anything like that, It will mean want one of these days.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.

Átnéztem a pólókat, és találtam egyet, melyrÅ'l egy kiguvadt szem? rajzfilmfigura meredt rám. A felirat szerint "Túl sok vér van a koffeinkeringésemben". Megvettem Pritkinnek.

You can't amp up my sex drive. It's already over the top.

Too much falsely inflates. Too little underprepares.

We've all loved someone way too freakin' much.

The brimming glass that overflows its own rim moistens the earth about it.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.

What might we aspire to instead, if not more possessions? 'Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.'72 When it comes to consumerism, perhaps the poverty that we aim to conceal lies in our neglected relationships

Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.

Wherever and whenever we are excessive in our lives it is the sign of an as yet unknown deprivation,' argues the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. 'Our excesses are the best clue we have to our own poverty, and our best way of concealing it from ourselves.'72 When it comes to consumerism, perhaps the poverty that we aim to conceal lies in our neglected relationships with each other and with the living world.

human needs are finite, but human greed is not …

Myrhvold, for instance, drank at least a six-pack a day of Diet Pepsi. He was, friends joked, "living proof there's no lethal dose for NutraSweet." Navigating

But for Marx, the world was like a breakfast at a five-star hotel in an Asian country—the abundance of it was almost overwhelming. Who wouldn't want a pineapple smoothie, a roast pork bun, an omelet, pickled vegetables, sushi, and a green-tea-flavored croissant? They were all there for the taking and delicious, in their own way.

We have smothered ourselves, buried ourselves, in the vast heap of information which all of us have and none of us has.

The unintended consequence of abundance is that we are bombarded with more information and choices in a day than our ancestors received in a lifetime.

This new black music represented excess and licentiousness, a direct flouting of traditional moral values.

Soft people who frequently complain about the smallest annoyances, who give in to laziness and excess, who expect others to work so that they can rest, who collapse into passive entertainment instead of active exercise — these are souls custom-made to become all but irrelevant in kingdom warfare. They are no threat to anyone — least of all to Satan.

Inanna knew sexuality was a form of worship intrinsic to human nature, so the perversion of that nature into manifold excess would lead to an idolatry of such a deep level as to enslave these wretched creatures to their appetites. The possibilities of sexual depravity were endless. The goal was to inspire sexual union with everyone and everything other than one man and one woman in covenant before Elohim. Even animals, inanimate objects and children were not exempt.

In fact, Jane kind of hoped that the twentieth-century heiress had really enjoyed herself as she thoughtlessly squandered the planet's resources and lived like a fattened barnyard animal.